Introduction
You have installed the JobScheduler and started it. What comes next?
This tutorial is intended to provide a quick and compact introduction to configuring and running Standalone Jobs on the JobScheduler.
Required Knowledge
Before you start to work through the examples in this document, we strongly recommend that you take the time to become familiar with some of the other JobScheduler documentation, in particular, the Installation and Configuration guide (scheduler_installation).
Note that a quick overview of the JobScheduler documentation (page 41) has been included at the end of this document.
How are Jobs, Job Chains and Orders Configured?
- JobScheduler objects (jobs, job chains, orders, schedules, process classes and locks) are all configured using plain XML files. These files are saved in the so-called Live Folder (the default location of this folder or directory is
./config/live, relative to the scheduler_data directory). There is a file in this directory for every JobScheduler object and the configuration for the object is saved in this file. - Changes to these object configuration files become effective without a restart of the JobScheduler being necessary, although on Unix® systems it may take up to a minute for a change to become effective.
- Objects can be created and modified using JOE - JobScheduler Object Editor. New objects are created by either opening an already existing configuration file in JOE, modifying it and then saving the file under a new name, or by creating and configuring a completely new file.
- A text editor could also be used to create and modify objects, but working in this way requires detailed knowledge of the XML structure of each JobScheduler object (see the JobScheduler Reference documentation for more information).