Beginner's Tutorial

This chapter takes the new user through a comprehensive tutorial of the process involved in job scheduling using EnterpriseSCHEDULE. If you're new to EnterpriseSCHEDULE, you probably have questions about the basic functions of the software. This chapter will show the user:

• How to connect to a Schedule server.
• A description of the EnterpriseSCHEDULE interface.
• How to create a new job for scheduling.
• What a job is made of (it's properties).
• How to add commands to a job (what the job will do when it is executed).
• How to connect a series of jobs for interdependent job scheduling.
• How to monitor a job as it is scheduling.
• How to view a job's current state in the system.
• How to configure a job to reschedule.

One thing you will discover right away about EnterpriseSCHEDULE is that there are usually several ways to perform a single function. For instance, a job may submitted from the EnterpriseSCHEDULE layout, from the EnterpriseSCHEDULE Job Explorer and from a command prompt.