5 Manage Job in the Database

1 Delete a Box Job from the Database

The delete_box subcommand deletes the specified box job and all the jobs in that box from the database

Syntax

delete_box: box_name

Example1

delete_box: Box1

2 Delete a Job from the Database

Syntax

delete_job: job_name

Add a Job to the Database

The insert_job subcommand adds a job definition to the database.

Syntax

insert_job: job_name

Example1

• insert_job: job1
• machine: prod
• command: /home/user/job_status.ksh
• job_type:cmd

Example2

• insert_job: file
• job_type: fw
• machine: prod
• watch_file: "C:\myfiles\testfile"

Example3

• insert_job: testjob
• job_type: box

3 Update an Existing Box or Job Definition in the Database

Syntax

update_job: job_name

Example

update_job: job1 
machine: pre-prod 

Original Job definition

insert_job: job1 
machine: prod 
Start_times: "04:00"

4 Automatically Delete a Job on Completion

The auto_delete attribute specifies the number of hours to wait after a job completes.

Syntax

auto_delete : hours | 0 | -1

Example

insert_job: jobs 
job_type: CMD 
machine: prod 
command: /home/user/job_status.ksh 
auto_delete:5 

5 Define the Number of Times to Restart a Job After a Failure

Syntax

n_retrys:attempts

• Applicable for only application failures
• If job is terminated then no action of n_retrys
• Not applicable for network failures
• network failures are controlled by the MaxRestartTrys parameter in the configuration file.