Xi Software Ltd - Xi-Batch

Batch & Print Management for UNIX & Linux systems

Xi-Batch - UNIX and Linux Batch scheduling

Xi-Batch is an advanced Batch Scheduler. If firing off everything from menus supplemented by complicated command lines meets your needs, you don't need a Batch Scheduler. For doing things at specific times and dates, you also have, on UNIX and Linux, a command called cron which takes strings of commands like this:

22 4 * * 0 root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.weekly

You may be aware that this means that the script /etc/cron.weekly is to be run every Sunday at 04:22 under user name root. If this does all you need (perhaps you have some menu suite that creates the entries for you) we wouldn't want to persuade you to buy Xi-Batch.

On the other hand if you want some or all of the following facilities ...

Running "one off" jobs integrated with the whole.
A choice of interfaces (GUI, character, shell, API, Windows) for controlling the times and other attribtues of jobs.
Setting up the start time and repeat intervals simply.
Working around weekends and holidays.
Performing tasks on the first or last (or second from last etc) working day of the month.
The ability to control the environments (files, resources etc) used by jobs.
Control of user access - possibly groups also.
The ability to interlock jobs (preventing more than a limited number of one kind to run at once)
The ability to strictly "chain" jobs together (possibly on more than one computer), so that one job can only be started after the successful completion of another job.
Load sharing of jobs across several computers.
Taking defined action on errors and exceptions.
Triggering jobs via the creation or changes to a file or files.
Maintaining logs of operations.
Customising the product system-wide or for each individual user.

... then we think Xi-Batch is for you and we would invite you to browse further.

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To look at each described feature in turn, beginning with interface choices, start here.