Job Scheduling

[Christopher Browne]

Is there anyone using more sophisticated job schedulers than cron?

http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonline/swol-07-1998/swol-07-scheduling.html

The above article points out the problems with this:

"In short, cron is pretty much a fancy alarm clock, waking up at
preset times to run a job. Detection of job failure is simplistic, and
it can't rerun a failed job at a later date. If you're lucky, cron
will send you e-mail that a job has failed, but more often than not,
that e-mail goes to the superuser, not your personal mailbox. There is
no way to tell cron to restart a failed job, or to automatically run a
recovery job if some other job has failed."

This article points out Unison Maestro, COSbatch, Autosys, CA
Unicenter as commercial choices that have these sorts of additional
capabilities.  Others include Vexus Avatar, Dollar Enterprise, BMC
Control-M, Tivoli Workload Scheduler, ...

There are several OSS systems that might be of some relevance:

http://jobscheduler.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/quartz (tasks must be in Java...)

Anyone tried any of these?
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