[TriLUG] Scheduling Software

[Greg Cox]

I'm half-hesitant to offer this as a solution, but, fcron has been
pretty nice to me.  Hasn't updated in a year, but, hasn't really
barfed on me, either.

I picked it up from a time when we had Veritas Cluster shuffling
services around a loose cluster of bigirons, and the cronjobs needed
to move with them (this was pre-ESX/Solaris Containers).  Can't keep
all the jobs in one crontab and hope to maintain your sanity.  We did
fcron and got the jobs split into per-service chunks, and it didn't
matter how we moved the services around since fcron was then just
another process for VCS to bring up, after the LUNs, DB, app, etc.
Multiple fcrons with different fcrontabs on the same host is cool.

Dunno if that fits what you want, but, there you go.


On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Ken Mink <ken.mink at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello LUGgers,
>  I've been doing some research for $WORK looking for a descent scheduler
> application. Our crontabs have gotten too large and interdependent. We're
> looking for a centralized scheduling application. Open source and/or free
> would be good, but commercial is okay. The servers are mostly Linux, but
> there's a few AIX machines. I was wondering if any one had and experience or
> recommendations with something that would fit the bill.
>
> Thanks
> Ken
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