[Building Sakai] Can We Eliminate Jobs Entirely? (was: Monitoring cron jobs for SIS feed files)

[Duffy Gillman]

Ok, it is probably not good form to discuss eliminating jobs during a recession. But I'm only talking about Quartz jobs here. And really I don't mean we should eliminate them entirely. I just don't think a Sakai administrator should have to think so much about them.

Presently job scheduler requires that the administrator first create a job from the list of registered job types before triggers can be created. But wait... why? Why not allow the admin to simply select from the list of job types then click "schedule this job"?

I think this would make the job scheduler tool much more usable. Any thoughts?

   Duffy Gillman
   Sr. Software Engineer
   The rSmart Group, Inc.


On Jan 12, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:

> Hi Nathan,
> 
> It doesn't look like the current quartz jobs fire many events, but it wouldn't be too hard to patch them to fire an appropriate start and stop event. You could then setup an observer that watches the events and send off an email when they complete.
> 
> cheers,
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
> On 13/01/2011, at 4:53 AM, Nathan Finley wrote:
> 
>> Anyone know of a way to monitor the cron jobs being running by the Job Scheduler without having to go into the Job Scheduler?  Specifically, I’m looking for a way to be notified via email or SMS that the cron jobs have run successfully.  Any help would be great.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Nathan
>> ----- 
>> Nathan Finley
>> Learning Management Systems Administrator
>> University of the Pacific
>> Office of Information Technology – Enterprise Applications
>> Email: nfinley at pacific.edu
>> Phone: 209.946.7669
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