Systems Management
VMS Job Management
Product Overview
Job Management is the combination of a job controller, database, and a logging system.
It helps data center personnel, individual users, and general OpenVMS users increase their productivity by providing a hands-off approach to running repetitive jobs. It is a fully distributed product. All functions and features work remotely as well as locally, transparent to the user except where noted.
Here is what it can do:
- Automates and manages jobs that run repeatedly, such as fiscal reports, operating system maintenance tasks, and user applications.
- Separates all scheduling specifics (such as schedule interval, completion notification, and job dependencies) from the main task of a job.
- Generate historical reports based on a log of captured events.
- Allows for automatic node failover and easily customized load balancing for OpenVMS Cluster systems.
Latest Version
| Alpha | Integrity | X-86 |
|---|---|---|
| R3.1 | R3.1 | V3.1 |
Features
Job Management has a number of useful features for creating and managing
repetitive jobs.
Jobs
- You can create jobs that consist of a single system-level command or a command file containing many commands.
- Your repetitive jobs run automatically, based on scheduled intervals and other criteria you specify. For example, you can specify mail notification for completed jobs, or what to do if a system failure occurs.
- You can modify selected job criteria without having to resubmit a job. The manager maintains your job criteria in its job database, separate from job actions.
- You can modify job characteristics for a single run or for all future runs. You can specify commands to run before or after a job (prefunctions and postfunctions)
Networks and Synchronized Jobs
- You can schedule jobs within a cluster of nodes or among remote nodes on a network.
- You can synchronize a job with up to 16 other jobs, in the same OpenVMS Cluster or on remote nodes. Those 16 jobs can be synchronized with other jobs, giving the effect of unlimited job dependencies.
Mail Notification and Reports
- You can send job completion notifications by OpenVMS mail, terminal broadcast messages, and OPCOM messages.
- The manager provides a standard format for log reports. You can customize the format to fit your specific requirements.
- You can view a job history for any number of jobs.
System Management
- You can restart interrupted jobs on failover nodes, based on the job criteria, restart labels, and strings within the command procedure.
Documentation
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