UNIX scheduler product

Tue Jun 15 14:03:45 PDT 2004

Wow.  I thought *MY* former company was the only one with a "non-CA" clause in
their contracts.  We had the same thing with TS-Reorg when they bought Platinum
(an oracle database reorg tool).  We weren't using AutoSys at that client -- we
went with Tivoli's equivalent (called "Maestro" at the time).

One nice thing about these tools is they include "plugins" for multiple
systems.  You can have a job stream with dependencies that calls unix scripts,
oracle SQL*Plus scripts, mainframe JCL scripts, ABAP programs within your SAP
system, etc.  They're incredibly handy for automating interfaces between
disparate systems.
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Rich Holland        (913) 645-1950        SAP Technical Consultant
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-baylisa at baylisa.org [mailto:owner-baylisa at baylisa.org] On Behalf
> Of Chuck Yerkes
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 1:38 PM
> To: baylisa at baylisa.org
> Subject: Re: UNIX scheduler product
> 
> Quoting Marco Nicosia (marco at escape.org):
> > We've looked at Computer Associate's AutoSys, but it seemed to be
> > overkill for a simple centralized cron-replacement. It's a part of
> > CA's massive UniCenter line.
> 
> Forgot about this.  Yeah, we used to use this at a client on
> around 500 machines (pre-CA. CA buying a company tripped an
> expiration clause in our contracts usually sending us scrambling
> for replacements).
> 
> If this is too complex for the OP, then perhaps offering detail of
> goals and tasks is warranted.
> 
> 
> As I said, I believe CFEngine can be pretty powerful in some simpler
> cases of distributed cron (or even just distribuTING crontab files).