Directory Monitoring & File Watching

Introduction

JobScheduler offers two methods to start jobs and job chains automatically based on the arrival of incoming files: directory monitoring and file watching.

• What is the difference between directory monitoring and file watching?

Directory Monitoring

Directory monitoring is used to automatically start jobs when a change occurs within a specified folder:

• How to monitor incoming files, updated files and timestamp changes with directory monitoring

File Watching

File watching is used to automatically start jobs and job chains when files arrive in a specified folder.

• Master: How to start a job chain on arrival of a file in a directory
• Agent: JobScheduler Universal Agent - Remote File Watching

Example

• Example for combining time and file-based events to start a job chain