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Here we have a collection of frequently asked questions from the users.
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Getting Started
- Creating a Job
- What is the concept of "job chains and order processing"?
- Passing Parameters to shell-jobs
- Passing parameters from shell-jobs to JS
Feature List
- reporting feature to provide analysis/information of job execution (daily/monthly report analysis)
- monitoring of Job delay, Job abort and generate alerts in addition to email
- File-watching___monitoring-File creation, File change and Timestamp change
- Integrated with NMS tools for enhanced monitoring and alerting
- support of Unicode or UTF-8 (e.g. Japanese language) in addition to English
- SAP R/3 Adapter
- Update Service
- Batch Update/Installation of Agents
- Does JobScheduler have the capacity to run scheduled ..... in some manner.
Trouble Shooting
- What infos the support need in case of a support-request?
- MySQL 4 user gets a database error during the setup for Job Scheduler releases > 1.3.10.1132
- MySQL h1. 5.5 user gets a database error during the setup for Job Scheduler releases < 1.3.10.1132
- Z-JAVA-101 Java Virtual Machine is not started
- How does setup.sh
- "/bin/sh___./bin/scheduler___not found" on Ubuntu 64Bit
- SCHEDULER-451 Database check failed for PostgreSQL
- How to limit the growth of scheduler.log
Different Topics
Configuration Issues
- Is there a timezone support in JobScheduler?
- Can multiple SOS Job Scheduler instances be installed and configured to run on a single host ?
- How I add environment variables?
- How can I change the location of the scheduler configuration?
- How can I change the scheduler id?
- How can I increase the Java heap space?
- How can I solve problems with temporary files which cannot deleted?
- How to configure different e-mail recipients for different serverity levels?
- How to connect a drive letter with a share under windows
- How will JobScheduler determine the location of the JVM (MS Windows only)?
- Exit Code Handling
- Using JOE (JobScheduler Object Editor) from Windows to configure a JobScheduler on Unix
- How can i modify the from address of an eMail sent from JS for
Database issues
- How can JobScheduler run with Oracle 11?
- How can JobScheduler run with Postgres 9.1 and higher?
- How to change the database connection (password, user, database, port ...)
- How can JobScheduler operate with a light-weight database like H2
- How to define a trigger in Oracle which starts a job in Job Scheduler
- How to archive JobScheduler history tables in a seperate database
Scheduling Issues
- How to prevent the execution of a job at the last sunday of a month?
- How to prevent the execution of a job at a specific monthday?
- How to stop a job for a not predfined period?
- How can I let run an order job at a start time different to the start time of the order?
JSOperations GUI
- How can I store filters persistent which are not disappear after cleanup cookies?
- Running the Operations GUI behind an Apache Proxy
- How can I set the language?
- OperationsGUI is very slow
- If the title of a JobScheduler object contains an URL then the OperationsGui creates a link
- Stopping Jobs, Disabling Jobs temporary, Skipping Nodes
JobScheduler Architecture
- How does a supervisor scheduler distribute the 'central_configuration_directory'?
- What to consider when an agent is used
- What is the difference between SSH-Job execution and remote JS-Agents?
- Starting Jobs in the DMZ using JS-Agents
Standard Jobs
"Standard Jobs" are "ready-made-jobs" which can used with a simple parameter-setup only.
A general overview to "Standard Jobs" one will find here.
Below are a report by categories:
Shell jobs: starting scripts
- Passing Parameters to shell-jobs
- Passing parameters from shell-jobs to JS
- Exit Code Handling
- How to control the process flow of a jobchain by exit codes
- A generic shell-job___passing the shell-script to execute as a parameter to the job
- How to execute a PHP script with JS
- How to execute a maven build with JS
The Windows PowerShell: starting scripts
- How to execute a PowerShell script with JS
- Setting the executionPolicy to execute .ps1-scripts
- How to get the Exit code of a powershell script
- How to pass variable-values from JS to a powershell script
- Passing_parameters_from_shell-jobs_to_JS
- Passing parameters between powershell scripts
- A generic PowerShell Job
JobScheduler Object Editor (JOE)
File- and Directory-Watching
- How to start Jobs or JobChains on a file-event?
- Is it possible to get a history of all transferred files?
- How can i watch a folder on a remote server?
JobScheduler Managed Jobs
- End of life
- Prerequisites to call the MANAGED JOBS Web Interface
- Why have the command parameter of some jobs a hexadecimal coded value?
- How can I purge the SCHEDULER_MANAGED_SUBMISSIONS database table?
- Error message___Missing function OCIPLogon, possibly is not loaded Oracle extension
- Using Oracle Easy Connect string
- TNS___could not resolve the connect identifier specified
- TNS___listener does not currently know of service requested in connect descriptor
- Error message___Missing function mssql_connect, possibly not loaded MSSQL extension
- How can I configure backup cluster in the MANAGED JOBS Interface?
- How can I deinstall the JobScheduler Managed Jobs component
- MANAGED JOBS Web Interface with HTTP Autentication
NMS (Network Monitor Systems/Windows Event Log)
- How can I use a NMS to monitor Job Scheduler jobs?
- Job Scheduler plugin for Nagios. Passive checks
- How connect Job Scheduler with Nagios using NSCA?
- How to redirect error messages and warnings to the windows event log
Audit trail
Controlling Job Scheduler by other Applications
- XML command interface
- When I sent a show_jobs command, the response dont contain all jobs
- How do I get the memory used by the JobScheduler?
How to syncronize jobs
- How to prevent a job run, when another job is running
- Syncronizing job chains. Waiting for the execution of an order in another job chain
- Avoiding the execution of a job chain when an order is already running in the chain
- Parallel Execution
Trigger Jobs using Eventing
- How can I trigger a job or a jobchain based on a (series of) event(s)?
- How to start Jobs or JobChains on a file-event?
Remote Scheduling
- How to define on which server a job should run
- When to use SSH, Agents or a JobScheduler instance
- What is the JobScheduler SuperVisor