Job scheduler on HPUX

[Shivkumar]

Dear Sirs,

What is job scheduler available on HPUX other than inbuilt cron ?

I remember "control M" on IBM AIX.

Thanks,
Shiv

[melvyn burnard]

ControlM is also available for HP-UX.
There are quite a few third party productas that are available.

[Raj D.]

Hi Shiv ,

You can use inbuilt at command , apart from cron.

Also Control-M is available for hp-ux .

We are using this version on hp-ux 11i 11.11.
# cat /usr/local/ctmagent/VERSION

FD PLATFORM CONTROL-M DATE INSTALLATION VERSION COMMENTS
------- -------- -------------- ------------ ------- --------
FD3585_AGENT HP-UX-10 Feb-2000 Apr-30-03 0001
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Cheers,
Raj.

[Raj D. · Accepted solution]

Hi (again) Shiv,

Here is the details of control-M agents:

CONTROL-M/Agent for HP-UX
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Supported Versions with Release Dates by Geography
Choose the version for which you want to view associated technical documents.

Version: 6.1.03 CONTROL-M/Agent for HP-UX
Americas EMEA Asia-Pacific
03-May-2004 04-May-2004


Version: 6.1.01 CONTROL-M/Agent for HP-UX
Americas EMEA Asia-Pacific
24-Jul-2002 25-Jul-2002 13-Aug-2002


Version: 6.0.05 CONTROL-M/Agent for HP-UX
Americas EMEA Asia-Pacific
01-Aug-2003 01-Aug-2003 01-Aug-2003


Version: 6.0.01 CONTROL-M/Agent for HP-UX
Americas EMEA Asia-Pacific
14-May-2001 14-May-2001 14-May-2001


Version: 2.25.00 CONTROL-M/Agent for HP-UX
Americas EMEA Asia-Pacific
29-Aug-2000 29-Aug-2000 29-Aug-2000


Version: 2.24.05 CONTROL-M/Agent for HP-UX
Americas EMEA Asia-Pacific
07-Aug-2002


Version: 2.24.04 CONTROL-M/Agent for HP-UX
Americas EMEA Asia-Pacific
29-Mar-2001 29-Mar-2001 29-Mar-2001


Version: 2.24.00 CONTROL-M/Agent for HP-UX
Americas EMEA Asia-Pacific
26-May-2000 13-Aug-1999 26-May-2000
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hth,
Raj.

[Shivkumar]

Is there any other product similar to control-M including third party or HP's own on HPUX platform ?

[rveri]

Shiv,

check this out:


http://www.vexus.ca/products/avatar/v4/index.html

[Shivkumar]

What are the benifits of third party scheduler over the cron inbuilt scheduler ?

Regards,
Shiv

[Raj D.]

Hi shiv ,

Thirdparty schedulers are having much more control and flexibility than inbuilt utilities. And very well managable.

For example , here are the key features for Control-M that widely used:


Provides you with a single point of control for job scheduling and file transfers by introducing file transfer capabilities into CONTROL-M
Keeps your data safe via secured file transfers
Provides you with file transfer runtime statistics in the CONTROL-M Enterprise Manager GUI
Allows you to restart from point of failure for a quick recovery
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Check Another thirdparty scheduler:

The UC4:global Architecture.
http://www.uc4.com/product_architecture.htm

Cheers,
Raj.

[Raj D.]

Shiv,

Also check this for Control-M Advanced file transfer solution :

Business Challenge:

Many organizations are using file transfers as a method of integration between platforms and applications. As business processes span across multiple platforms, file transfers are becoming an integral part of the batch process. In many cases the tools being used to manage file transfers are separate from the job scheduler, which requires more resources and makes it difficult to meet service level agreements.

Business Need :
Use a single solution for file transfers and batch scheduling
Schedule secured file transfers with encryption and authentication
Monitor file transfer runtime statistics such as transfer rate, estimated remaining time etc.
Recover file transfer from the point of failure
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Link: http://www.bmc.com/products/documents/18/24/41824/41824.pdf

Hth,
Raj.

[Chan 007]

Hi Shiv,

For HP-UX I have used ControlM & IBM Tivoli Job Scheduler.

I rate ControlM with 9/10 and for 7/10 for IBM JS.

ControlM is BMC product.

Adv over Cron,

Cron is inbuild and no need for investing money,

while others will provide centralised managemnet of batch jobs. Also you can control a job very well. Like for example a in/out condition between jobs and global conditions between systems/applications running on different systems.

Also if your 1st job fails the second will not be traggered automatically.

Finally I can be monitored by your centralised Operations.

Cheers ...007

[Arturo Galbiati]

Hi,
other available scheduling tool for HP-US are Maestro and Tidal.
HTH,
Art

[Doug Kratky]

Another popular one is AutoSys - see http://www3.ca.com/solutions/Product.aspx?ID=253.

I don't think I've seen it in this thread yet. It's commonly used in distributed applications - for example, jobs on one server can be dependent on jobs on another server.