OPEN SOURCE - Job Scheduler - Quickstart

You have installed the Job Scheduler and now you want to know what to do next?

The following samples provide a quickstart how to use Job Scheduler. If you want to use all the Job Scheduler features, then you should refer to the documentation section.

All samples are created from scratch as XML files using any editor of your choice. An introduction to the Job Configuration Editor that saves the hazzle of typing XML and that provides more samples is available in the Quickstart for Job Configuration.

Note that in these sample jobs relative links are used from the Job Scheduler installation directory. This directory is the working directory for your jobs.

The Managed Jobs package, that you might have selected during setup is not used for these jobs, but rather hot folders, i.e. you can paste the samples jobs into files in the ./config/live directory.

Please stick to the naming scheme job_name.job.xml, e.g. if a job is created with the name my_shell_script then its file name would be ./config/live/my_shell_script.job.xml. Whenever you add, delete or change a job definition it will be immediately applied by Job Scheduler that monitors your hot folders.

If Job Scheduler is running on localhost and port 4444, please use the following URLs:

• http://localhost:4444
  to control jobs use the job context menu with operations to start and stop jobs
  
  
• http://localhost:4444/doc/en/index.xml
  to access the reference documentation, alternatively open the file
  ./config/html/doc/en/index.xml

• Sample 1: Time controlled execution of Shell scripts
• Sample 2: Execution of a Shell script per directory monitoring
• Sample 3: Execution of a PHP script
• Sample 4: Executing programs

• Presentation 1: Setting up a job in the Job Scheduler
• Presentation 2: Setting up a job chain in the Job Scheduler

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<job>
   <script language="shell">
     <include file="jobs/my_shell_script.sh"/>
     <!-- for Windows use "jobs\my_shell_script.cmd" -->
   </script>
   <run_time begin = "08:00"
               end = "20:00">
     <weekdays>
       <day day="1">
         <period begin = "09:00" end = "12:00" repeat = "1800"/>       
       </day>
       <day day="2">
         <period begin = "09:00" end = "12:00" repeat = "1800"/>       
       </day>
       <day day="3">
         <period begin = "09:00" end = "12:00" repeat = "1800"/>       
       </day>
       <day day="4">
         <period begin = "09:00" end = "12:00" repeat = "1800"/>       
       </day>
       <day day="5">
         <period begin = "09:00" end = "12:00" repeat = "1800"/>       
       </day>
     </weekdays>
   </run_time>
</job>
                  

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<job>
   <script language="shell">
     <include file="jobs/my_shell_script.sh"/>
     <!-- for Windows use "jobs\my_shell_script.cmd" -->
   </script>
   <start_when_directory_changed directory = "notification_dir"
                                     regex = "\.txt$"/>
   <run_time/>
</job>
                  

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<job>
   <script language="shell"><![CDATA[ 
     /usr/src/php-4.3.3/sapi/cli/php -f jobs/my_php_script.php
   ]]></script>
   <!-- for Windows use "c:\php\cli\php.exe" -->
   <run_time/>
</job>
                  

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<job>
   <script language="shell"><![CDATA[ 
     %windir%\system32\net.exe stop MySQL
   ]]></script>
   <run_time>
     <period single_start = "03:00"/>
   </run_time>
</job>
                  

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<job>
   <script language="shell"><![CDATA[ 
     %windir%\system32\net.exe start MySQL
   ]]></script>
   <run_time>
     <period single_start = "03:02"/>
   </run_time>
</job>
                  

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<job>
   <script language="shell"><![CDATA[ 
     %windir%\system32\net.exe stop MySQL
   ]]></script>
   <run_time>
     <period single_start = "03:00"/>
   </run_time>
   <commands on_exit_code="success">
     <start_job job="service_start"/>
   </commands>
</job>