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 intuitive visual configuration.
• The underlying XML configuration is minimalistic and elegant.
• Link job properties with dynamic run-time configuration.
• 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 to the files that tie business processes together.

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.
• 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.
• Schedule by time zone.
• Schedule for the last working day of the month.

Functionality

Oddjob includes numerous tasks including:

• Execute shell commands and batch files.
• File/directory copy/move/delete.
• SQL execution.
• Email sending.
• FTP.
• SSH and SCP

In addition to the supplied jobs, Oddjob provides lots of additional functionality by supporting embedded Ant tasks.

Workflow

• Trigger job sequences in response to events anywhere on the network.
• Execute jobs in parallel 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 dependent jobs.
• Persist job states.

Developing

Schedule bespoke jobs without learning a new API.

• Jobs are plain old Java java.lang.Runnable or java.util.concurrent.Callable objects.
• Configuration is via the standard Java Bean properties of a job.