On 1 August 2014 19:32:36 CEST, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi, > >Up-front disclaimer: Mostly [OT] post. But at least I'll test drive it >on Gentoo before putting it in production :-) > >New job, new environment. Existing persons suffer from >5-year-old-with-a-hammer syndrome and assume cron is the solution to >all >ills. Result: a towering edifice of cron jobs that may or may not >clobber each other's work, may or may not work at all, and implement no >error handling at all. But my god, can they spew out mail from STOUT > > >But cron has only one event trigger: wall-clock time. And it's a very >blunt weapon. I'm looking for recommendations of alternative schedulers >that satisfy real-world business needs that need some other event >trigger than what the time is right now. > >For those familiar with it, I'm looking for something with the useful >feature set, without the useless features and without the price tag of >ControlM > >Anyone care to share experiences?
I'm also looking for a free alternative. At most of my clients, I see Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS) being used a lot. It has most things what you want from an intelligent multi host scheduler. Unfortunately, it also comes with a corresponding price tag. If anyone knows of an OS project with comparable features, please let me know. Failing this, it is on my list to start writing one myself when I get some spare time. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
