Motivation
SOS is moving the JobScheduler architecture towards improved cross-platform support.
User needs have been identified
to support more Unix platforms and versions.
- to provide a more simple deployment of JobScheduler at enterprise level.
- Correspondingly SOS provides a Scala / Java based JobScheduler Universal Agent that is platform independent and is easily deployed.
Key Features
Platform Independence
- The Agent is developed with Scala and Java. The only requirement is a Java Runtime Environment starting from version 1.8.
- Technically the JobScheduler Universal Agent can be operated on any platform that is Java aware.
- see Platform Support
Zero Configuration
- The Agent has been designed to require zero configuration:
- An Agent is not configured for a specific Master. Instead the Agent serves requests from any Master and is addressed by Process Classes of a Master.
- Agent configuration is not required.
- Easy Deployment
- Deploying the Agent to hundreds of servers is a task of minutes.
- JobScheduler can be used to automate the deployment of Agents. Alternatively popular tools such as Puppet® can be applied.
Agent Clustering
- A number of JobScheduler Agents can be configured in an Agent Cluster for redundancy and fail-over of Agents.
- Fixed Priority Scheduling
- JobScheduler Master will select the first available Agent for execution of jobs.
- If an Agent is not available then the next available Agent is selected from the Agent Cluster.
- Round-Robin Scheduling
- JobScheduler Master switches the Agent for each job execution.
- If an Agent is not available then the next available Agent is selected from the Agent Cluster.
- See How to use Agents with Fixed Priority Scheduling and Round-Robin Scheduling
User Switching
- The Universal Agent can switch user accounts on Windows Systems, with authentication information being stored in the Windows Credential Manager. This solution provides a secure and compliant implementation that does not require the main Agent process to be run as root.
- FEATURE AVAILABILITY STARTING FROM RELEASE 1.11.4
- See JobScheduler Universal Agent - Running jobs as a different user
Download & Installation
- The JobScheduler Universal Agent has been available since August 2015 starting with Release 1.10.0.
- See Downloads
- See Installation & Operation instructions
Job and Job Chain Execution
- Jobs and Job Chains are linked to Agents by means of Process Classes.
- A process class is assigned an Agent.
- A job or job chain is assigned a process class.
- A job chain can be configured to use:
- A default process class for subsequent job nodes. This enables a more flexible configuration than assigning the process class to a specific job that would be used for all jobs chains.
- A second process class for File Watching that is assigned an Agent that triggers file orders for incoming files on the Agent host.
- See How to execute Jobs and Job Chains with Agents
Migration Strategy
- Users of the existing JobScheduler instances on platforms different from Windows and Linux are asked to consider the proposed Migration Strategy.
- Commercial license holders of JobScheduler on platforms different from Windows and Linux can ask for our Migration Service.
Feedback
- We ask our community to engage in testing of the JobScheduler Universal Agent for additional platforms, operating systems and versions.
- Please send us an e-mail and let us know the platforms that you operate the JobScheduler Universal Agent for and tell us about your experiences.
Pages
- JobScheduler Universal Agent - Platforms
- JobScheduler Universal Agent - Architecture
- JobScheduler Universal Agent - Features
- JobScheduler Universal Agent - Installation & Operation
- JobScheduler Universal Agent - Installation with Windows Installer
- JobScheduler Universal Agent - Running multiple instances
- JobScheduler Universal Agent - REST Web Service
- JobScheduler Universal Agent - Batch Installation and Update of Agents
- Common pitfalls when setting up HTTPS communication to an Agent
- JobScheduler Universal Agent - Logging
- JobScheduler Universal Agent - Development Status
- JobScheduler Universal Agent - Migration Strategy
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