Autosys Command Line Interface

Although Windows XP's "at" command or Korn shell's "cron" allows you to run job at desired time - It lacks enterprise level job scheduling features. PLATINUM Technology might fill this gap by AutoSys.

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AutoSys is ...

• A full job scheduling and management system for NT systems.
• Allows you create simple or complex sets of instructions to automatically execute at regular intervals.
• Allows you trigger jobs by date and time, file arrival, and other criteria.

Like any scheduling product, AutoSys automatically monitors your jobs. If needed, AutoSys can itself restart jobs that have failed, or cancelled, or were aborted for any reasons. For mission critical projects AutoSys also has a high availability option that will perform rollover of jobs to a backup server if your primary server fails. (Need clustering system like VCS - Veritas Clustering System). . .

Defining Autosys Jobs

There are the three methods you can use to create job definitions:

1. By Autosys Web interface
2. By AutoSys Graphical User Interface (GUI).
3. By using AutoSys Job Information Language (JIL) through a command-line interface.

Autosys Job Types and Structure

There are three types of jobs:

1. Command,
2. File Watcher
3. Box.

Box Jobs : Container of other jobs (including other boxes), and box itself performs no actions, although it can trigger other jobs to run. An important feature of this type of job is that boxes can be put inside of other boxes

File Watcher Jobs : Watch for the arrival of a specified file.

Autosys CLI Syntax - Interface

Here is a template file that explains the syntax of Autosys JIL. (Job Information Language.)