Setting Automated Jobs; About Automated Jobs; Setting Up Automated Jobs; Types Of Automated Jobs - Red Hat CERTIFICATE SYSTEM 8.0 - ADMINISTRATION Admin Manual

Chapter 11.

Setting Automated Jobs

The Certificate System provides a customizable Job Scheduler that supports various mechanisms for
scheduling cron jobs. This chapter explains how to configure Certificate System to use specific job
plug-in modules for accomplishing jobs.

11.1. About Automated Jobs

The Certificate Manager Console includes a Job Scheduler option that can execute specific jobs at
specified times. The Job Scheduler is similar to a traditional Unix cron daemon; it takes registered
cron jobs and executes them at a pre-configured 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 Certificate System as plug-
in modules. One implementation of a job module can be used to configure multiple instances of the
job. 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.

11.1.1. Setting up Automated Jobs

The automated jobs feature is set up by doing the following:
• Enabling and configuring the Job Scheduler; see
more information.
• Enabling and configuring the job modules and setting preferences for those job modules; see
Section 11.3, "Setting up Specific Jobs"
• Customizing the email notification messages sent with these jobs by changing the templates
associated with the types of notification. The message contents are composed of both plain text
messages and HTML messages; the appearance is modified by changing the HTML templates. See
Section 10.3.1, "Customizing CA Notification Messages"

11.1.2. Types of Automated Jobs

The types of automated jobs are certRenewalNotifier, requestInQueueNotifier,
publishCerts, and unpublishExpiredCerts.
11.1.2.1. certRenewalNotifier
The certRenewalNotifier job checks for certificates that are about to expire in the internal
database. When it finds one, it automatically emails the certificate's owner and continues sending
email reminders for a configured period of time or until the certificate is replaced. The job collects
a summary of all renewal notifications and mails the summary to the configured agents or
administrators.
The job determines the email address to send the notification using an email resolver. By default, the
email address is found in the certificate itself or in the certificate's associated enrollment request.
Section 11.2, "Setting up the Job Scheduler"
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