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Installation Procedure

Download the Batch Installer and Agent Files

The following steps have to be carried out. Files can be downloaded from http://www.sos-berlin.com/jobscheduler-downloads

  1. Unix
    • Download the "JobScheduler Universal Agent" tarball for Unix.
    • Download the "Universal Agent Batch Installer". The archive contains the following: 
      • a config/live/batch_installer_agent folder, with the jobs and job chains. Extract these files to the the live folder of the JobScheduler Master: SCHEDULER_DATA/config/live.
      • a config/batch_installer folder with the configuration files for the Batch Installer. Extract these files to the config directory of the JobScheduler Master: SCHEDULER_DATA/config.
      • Copy the JobScheduler Universal Agent installation file to the SCHEDULER_DATA/config/batch_installer folder.
  2. Windows
    • Download the "JobScheduler Universal Agent" for Windows.
    • Download the "Universal Agent Batch Installer". The archive contains the following
      • the config/live/batch_installer_agent folder with the jobs and job chains. Extract these files to the live folder of the JobScheduler Master SCHEDULER_DATA/config/live.
      • the config/batch_installer folder with the configuration files for the Batch Installer. Extract these files to the JobScheduler configuration directory SCHEDULER_DATA/config.
      • Copy the JobScheduler Universal Agent installation file to the folder SCHEDULER_DATA/config/batch_installer.

Configuration

XML files

Configuring complex XML files with a text editor is often a tedious and error-prone procedure. To get around this, we recommend that you use our XML Editor to manage the configuration files required for the Batch Installer. The XML Editor automatically validates configuration files and therefore reduces the possibility of configuration errors. See the Using the XML Editor chapter below for more detailed information about using the XML Editor. 

  • After downloading the XML Editor, extract the contents of the zip file to a convenient folder (an installation routine is not required) and start the sos.xml.editor.exe program.
  • Open your yade_agent_batch_installer_settings.xml YADE configurationfile, which is located in the config/batch_installer folder and assign the XSD schema http://www.sos-berlin.com/schema/yade/YADE_configuration_v1.0.xsd. See the YADE profiles for the file transfer chapter below for instructions on how to configure the YADE configuration file.
  • Open your batch_installer_config_file.xml configuration file in the XML Editor and assign the scheduler_universal_agent_installations.xsd schema: both files are located in the config/batch_installer folder. See the Batch Installer Configuration File chapter below for instructions on how to configure the Batch Installer configuration file.
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  • The  XML Editor is available for Windows.
  • YADE is an Open Source file transfer solution for FTP, SFTP, FTPS, WebDAV and other protocols. Concretely, it will be used here for transferring the following files from the JobScheduler Master to the Agent servers:
    • JobScheduler Universal Agent installation files: jobscheduler_unix_universal_agent.<version>.tar.gz
    • Start script for an Agent instance: jobscheduler_agent_<port>.sh
    • Installation script: jobscheduler_universal_agent_install.sh
  • For more information about YADE, see the YADE product site.

JobScheduler Jobs

Carry out the following once the job and job chain have been extracted to the live folder of your JobScheduler Master: 

  • AgentBatchInstaller job: set the parameter values for the AgentBatchInstaller job in your JobScheduler Master.

    • Set the installation_definition_file job parameter to the path that points to the Batch Installer configuration file.

Installation of the Agents

The Agents can be installed after the XML configuration files and JobScheduler jobs have been configured. Start a task for the AgentBatchInstaller job as follows:

  1. Open a JobScheduler Operating Center (JOC) browser window for the JobScheduler master.
  2. Go on the "Jobs" Window and open the "batch_installer_universal_agent" folder.
  3. Right click on the job to open the context menu.
  4. Select the Start task immediately operation.
  5. This job will create the appropriate Orders for the JobScheduler
    6. orders
  6. as explained in the description of the
    7. chapter 
  7. Batch Installer Application.

Example Use Case: Installation of two Agents

The following example describes the installation of two Agents on separate servers. First of all, the YADE configuration file for the file transfer will be configured (in XML format), it will then be converted to the YADE settings file format (.ini) and finally the Batch Installer configuration file will be specified.

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