Job Management - Pre- and post-processing

Pre- and post-processing allow the manipulation of job input and output either in the form of parameters or conditions and thereby significantly increase the power and flexibility of jobs.

Pre- and post-processors can either be configured as job functions or as separate JobScheduler objects that can then be implemented as Monitors.

A number of methods are available for pre- and post-processing of jobs:

• Pre-processing:
  • Conditional job execution
    • How to add conditions for job execution with date calculation
• Post-processing:
  • Error Handling
    • How to use Job Postprocessing to handle Exit Codes
  • Workflow Control
    • How to configure workflow control by return code handling
    • How to manage complex conditions to check previous job executions and to start successor job chains
• Monitors - pre-configured scripts that can be specified as pre- and post-processors for jobs:
  • Monitors - an introduction
  • How to configure a Named Monitor
  • How to configure an Enforced Monitor