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Webinar: Workflows and JAMS
February 24th at 10AM and 2PM EST |
These webinars will look closely at Windows Workflow and how JAMS leverages workflows as part of an organization's goal to integrate batch job scheduling with its core applications. JAMS supports all standard workflow activities so users have extremely flexible flow control. And, users can write their own activities or buy off the shelf activities that you can then drop into workflows. These webinars will highlight workflows that existing JAMS customers have created to demonstrate the power and flexibility that's possible.
This webinar is designed for System Administrators, IT Managers and DBA's who are trying to achieve total application automation.
Join us on Thursday, February 24th at 10AM or 2PM EST. |
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Back by Popular Demand - Microsoft MVP Don Jones |
Seeing as this paper was downloaded more than 500 times in the past two weeks, we figured we would give it another plug!
 Founded by IT experts Don Jones and Greg Shields, Concentrated Technology offers concise, expert IT services for both IT professionals and for IT vendors, including Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). In this piece, Don Jones takes a close look at JAMS Job Scheduler. Here is an excerpt:
"MVP Systems' JAMS Scheduler is a job-execution scheduling engine designed for heterogeneous environments of all sizes. It offers a full-featured replacement for traditionally-used native scheduling components such as the Windows Task Scheduler, Unix/Linux cron jobs, SQL Server Agent jobs, and more. It does so in a highly-configurable way that supports robust reporting and monitoring, complex multi-step jobs, and more. The version reviewed for this analysis (January 2011) supports leading-edge job execution technologies, including Microsoft Windows PowerShell, putting the product into a market leadership position."
Read the complete review. |
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Question of the Week |
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We have a job "Reboot" that runs every day@ 11:05:00 PM. This job depends on job "Defrag" running @ 11:00:00 PM. We have a "Clear Cache Sunday" job that runs @ 6:00:00 AM on Sundays which depends on "Reboot" running successfully.
The preceding 3 jobs are scheduled and the goal here is to have "Defrag" and "Clear Cache Sunday" run, and the server reboot daily, but not reboot if either of other two jobs are still running....can this be done?
Yes! We can do this with JAMS Resource definitions. Resource units are consumed by jobs as they run and released on completion. Say we define a Resource called DefragProcess with 100 units available. Then we can define the Defrag and Clear Cache jobs to consume 50 units each respectively. And then the Reboot job to consume 100 units. The Reboot job could not run if either of the other jobs is running.
Have a question for our Support Team? Send it in to support@jamssupport.com and if we use it in one of our newsletters, we will send you an MVP Systems polo shirt.
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JAMS PowerGUI PowerPack |
The  JAMS PowerPack incorporates support for PowerGUI, an extensible administrative console for administering and managing Windows systems.
The JAMS PowerPack utilizes many of the cmdlets from the JAMS PowerShell Snap-in to make it even easier to perform common PowerShell actions with JAMS. The PowerPack prompts users for parameters that would otherwise need to be specified at the PowerShell command line.
PowerGUI's graphical interface makes it easier to perform actions on specific JAMS objects. The PowerPack allows for management of the current schedule, Queues, Triggers, Variables, and Named Times. The file transfer cmdlets are also supported by the PowerPack and will prompt for the necessary parameters. Another benefit is that the PowerPack will only prompt for common parameters such as "Server" once while PowerShell requires the information to be entered each time the command is executed.
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