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) JITL job (JobSchedulerSSHJob) allows a JobScheduler to execute programs on another computer without a JobScheduler Agent being installed on that machine.

The JobSchedulerSSHJob allows execution on Windows and Unix systems.

• The elegance of SSH is its simplicity. It allows public/private key authentication and is well suited to execute programs for specific accounts.

• • The JobScheduler SSH JITL job allows

• • shell scripts to return values to

• • JobScheduler

• • orders as parameters.
    
    • See How To - Usage of the SSH Job (

• • • JobSchedulerSSHJob) with JCraft's JSch.
• One of the restrictions of standard SSH connections is that there is limited control of child processes on the remote host. 
  • If

• • a number of child processes

• • are spawned by a program during an SSH session and that

• • session gets killed then these child processes would normally continue

• • running.
  • The JobScheduler provides a method for monitoring SSH

• • connections that allows both remote sessions and local JobScheduler tasks to be terminated

• • .
    • See How To - SSH Session Management for more information.
• The JobScheduler provides a means of controlling the behavior of standard error output and exit codes of shell commands using the SSH JITL

• Job

• .
  • See Job JobSchedulerSSHJob

• • - Handling StdErr and ExitCode for more information.