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The SSH (Secure Shell) 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 executing programs for specific accounts.
  • In addition the The JobScheduler SSH JITL job allows shell scripts to return values to the JobScheduler order 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 during an SSH session a number of child processes has been are spawned by a program during an SSH session and that SSH session gets killed then these child processes would normally continue to runrunning.
  • The JobScheduler provides a method for monitoring SSH connections that allows both remote sessions and local JobScheduler tasks to be terminated - see .
    • 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 .
  • See Job JobSchedulerSSHJob - Handling StdErr and ExitCode for more information.