<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: [Linux-cluster] Centralized Cron</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  Or use cron on the headnode to submit jobs to the clusterscheduler if that does not support recurring timed jobs... -----Original Message----- From: Harald Kubota [<A HREF="mailto:hkubota@gmx.net">mailto:hkubota@gmx.net</A>] Sent: Tue May 09 07:53:08 2006 To: linux clustering Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] Centralized Cron saju john wrote: > > > Is there any way to make a centalized cron > at work (more clusters, all Veritas though) we use autosys, which is basically a program scheduler to start programs on other machines. cron jobs are for jobs which are for each node (e.g. sending a health status to a central server once a day), thus bound to a physical machine. autosys is for everything which can move (cluster service groups, e.g. running a DB cleanup job on the node which runs the DB). Since each service group has its own IP address and DNS entry, autosys simply connect to that IP address and executes a script (and does more like checking the status, handling timeouts, sending out alarms if anything went wrong etc.). Since autosys is commercial software and required quite some infrastructure, a simpler approach is to set up one machine (maybe cluster it ;-) which starts jobs on other machines according to a list it maintains. Harald -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@redhat.com <A HREF="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster</A> </BODY> </HTML>