Features
Monitoring and Control
Oddjob Explorer allows the user to monitor and control a job
any where on the network with an intuitive visual interface.
- Work with remote jobs as if they were on the desktop.
- See the state of your business processes at a glance.
- View job by job log events.
- Inspect and change the run-time properties of a job.
- Start and stop jobs manually.
- Web based monitoring and control.
Configuration
- Oddjob Designer provides intuative visual configuration.
- The underlying XML configuration is minimalistic and elegant,
making it easy to edit for those who prefer the more technical
approach.
- Link job properties with dynamic run-time configuration.
Scheduling
Scheduling that goes beyond the usual regular interval type
functionality of other schedulers.
- Schedule for holidays intelligently by moving the existing
schedules instead of not executing them at all.
- Schedule for different times on different days without
needing to set up separate schedules.
- Configure retries for when a scheduled job fails.
- Re-run only what's necessary in a sequence of time
consuming jobs.
- Trigger alerts when a scheduled job fails.
- Trigger alerts when a scheduled job fails after
n number of retries.
- Schedule by time zone - move jobs from London to
New York without re-writing schedules.
- Schedule for the last working day of the month.
- Schedule for the day after the last working day of the
month.
- Schedule for any occurence of a time - second Tuesday
of the month, or second Tuesday or Wednesday
whichever is first or last.
Functionality
In addition to the supplied jobs, Oddjob provides lots
of functionality by supporting
embedded Ant
tasks. Funtionality provided this way includes:
- file/directory copy/move/delete.
- email
- ftp
- sql
- zip/unzip
Workflow
- Trigger job sequences in response to events anywhere
on the network.
- Execute jobs in parrallel or sequentially or in any
combination of the two.
- Execute job sequences based on the completion state
of another job or job sequence.
- Cascade failure events upwards to trigger alerts.
- Cascade completion events upwards to trigger dependant
jobs.
- Persist job states.
Organise
- Organise jobs into folders allowing easy navigation of
enterprise wide business processes.
- Collect existing manual desktop processes together where
they can be monitored and controlled remotely.
- Provide order and visibility to the mass of batch files and
cron jobs that tie an enterprises critical
business processes together.
Developing
Schedule bespoke jobs without learning a new API.
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