That was where I was confused as well. On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]>wrote:
> Honestly, I'm not sure I see a difference between repeatable jobs and > scheduled tasks, other than nomenclature. :) > > I use Orchestrator for this at a couple of clients and it seems to work > just fine and the reports are sweet. YMMV. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 6:09 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Enterprise task scheduler > > Yep - Opalis. Shame that - there aren't many packages in that spot. > > Winbatch might be your better bet, in that case. It's been a long time > since I played with those products, too. > > Kurt > > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Adam Meixler <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had thought the same thing! (was Opalis?) > > > > Some googling seems to suggest that it's not meant for Task Scheduling > any more. It can be made to do it, but its strong suit is repeatable Jobs > rather than scheduled tasks now. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 3:30 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: Enterprise task scheduler > > > > It's been a lot of years since I touched it (more than 10!) and it's > since been acquired by MSFT and rolled into the SC suite, but Orchestrator > comes to mind... > > > > Might be worth a look. > > > > Kurt > > > > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Adam Meixler <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Happy New Year everyone! > >> > >> > >> > >> I was hoping to get The Lists opinion on a good, un-bloated > >> enterprise task scheduler. Right now we have about a thousand tasks > >> scattered across different servers using the windows scheduled task > >> service and it’s just not doing it for us. > >> > >> > >> > >> It’d be nice if jobs could be pushed down to workers as they were > >> available vs. being scheduled on specific instances, but we at least > >> want a central control of these jobs. > >> > >> > >> > >> We’re open to any ideas that don’t involve CA > >> > >> > >> > >> Thanks all > >> > >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > >> > >> --- > >> To manage subscriptions click here: > >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > >> or send an email to [email protected] > >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ < > http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
