Scheduling and automation

A[L]C · 29 Sep 2019 at 22:10

Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone has experience with scheduling and automation tools? We are currently looking at JAMS and ActiveBatch.

Thanks

droyden · 2 Oct 2019 at 20:34

What are you looking to automate?

A[L]C · 3 Oct 2019 at 00:27

For the scheduling, windows scheduled tasks, SSIS, SQL agent, cron on AIX, powershell etc. For automation it will be used for things like provisioning new starters, patch management steps, vmware tasks etc

droyden · 3 Oct 2019 at 18:48

Depending on how big your environment is, you should be looking at some sort of centralised scheduling, cron etc is fine for 5 servers but 50 or 500 it is unmanageable.

Vmware has a very good api which has support from lots of languages, so you can either write your own scripts or you might be able to plug into terraform or similar, depends what you want to do.

A[L]C · 3 Oct 2019 at 19:30

droyden said:
Depending on how big your environment is, you should be looking at some sort of centralised scheduling, cron etc is fine for 5 servers but 50 or 500 it is unmanageable.

Vmware has a very good api which has support from lots of languages, so you can either write your own scripts or you might be able to plug into terraform or similar, depends what you want to do.

Yeah thats the point, we're looking for some centralised scheduling tools

droyden · 3 Oct 2019 at 21:26

Sorry I had forgotten you were asking about scheduling as well :rolleyes:

We use IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler, although it is mainframe driven so probably not a suitable solution!
For automation/config management we use puppet, customs scripts plus MS Orchestrator on the windows side.