We are currently running Polycenter scheduler which ceases
to function under DU v4.0 due to incompatabilities with
with rpcd/dced under the new version. There is no support
from CA for Polycenter Scheduler as it has imbedded 3rd
party software (Informix database) and they would like
people to instead buy Unicenter.
I have heard of the following products which may offer some
similar functionality:
NQS (freeware)
Platinum's AutoSYS
Open Vision's Axiom
OSM's Cosmos
Platform Computing's JobScheduler
ISA's AppWorx
ICAM's JSS
Macro 4's UniQBatch
Radley Scheduler
SCH Technologies ASAP/Director or SCH
Unison Software's Maestro
CA Unicenter
I am interested in hearing recommendations, positive or negative,
for any of the above products or any other products folks may
be using.
Key features we're looking for are (the short list):
Single server for multiple hosts
(all DU, at this time, NT and other UNIX may be futures)
Flexible scheduling algorithms
Queueing by job class (per host, don't need load balancing)
Secure means of defining or runing jobs under other uids
(e.g., production uids which have no terminal login)
Management logging of job execution
A similar question posted in March with the summary pointing
primarily towards NQS, very few of the products above were
mentioned. If anybody has done product comparisons, I'd be
very interested in seeing the results. We are familiar with
VMS's Scheduler v2 and CA-7 under MVS if anybody wants to use
those as reference points in comparison. Kurt
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Kurt Carlson, University of Alaska SOIS/TS, (907)474-6266
sxkac_at_alaska.edu 910 Yukon Drive #105.63, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6200
Received on Wed May 14 1997 - 23:13:39 NZST