Job

Job system of Enterprise Manager provides support for scheduling the operations and executing an operation as per the schedule. Enterprise Manager provides a framework where a unit of work to be done is defined as a job, these jobs can be scheduled to run on multiple targets and the outcome of that is persisted in the repository. For the scheduling of a job, Enterprise Manager console provides an interface, using which the user can specify the parameters to be passed on to the job and the targets where the job needs to be executed.

For example, the Database backup job contains all the details on how to perform database backup. Enterprise Manager console provides an interface to select on which database this operation needs to be run, what is the backup mode (online, offline), and what is the schedule to run this job.

Success or failure of the job execution can also be sent out as a notification.

Major building blocks of job system are as follows:

• Job Definition: Job definition contains...