Chapter 14 Automated Jobs; About Automated Jobs - Red Hat CERTIFICATE SYSTEM 7.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Red Hat Certificate System (CS) provides a customizable Job Scheduler component that
supports various mechanisms for scheduling
configure CS to use specific job plug-in modules for accomplishing jobs.
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About Automated Jobs

Red Hat Certificate System (CS) includes a component called Job Scheduler that can
execute specific jobs at specified times. The job scheduler functions similar to a traditional
Unix
preconfigured date and time. If configured, the scheduler checks at specified intervals for
jobs waiting to be executed; if the specified execution time has arrived, the scheduler
initiates the job automatically.
Jobs are implemented as Java classes, which are then registered with CS as plug-in
modules. You can use a given implementation of a job module and configure multiple
instances of it. Each instance must have a unique name (an alphanumeric string with no
spaces) and can contain different input parameter values to apply to different jobs. You can
also create custom job modules using the CS SDK.
About Automated Jobs
Setting Up the Job Scheduler
Setting Up Specific Jobs
Customizing Notification Messages
Managing Job Plug-ins
daemon in that it takes registered
cron
Automated Jobs
jobs. This chapter explains how to
cron
jobs and executes them at a
cron
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