Re: Cron management...

From: Gus Spier <gus.spier_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 14:50:07 -0400
Message-ID: <CAG8xnifMJ+VPz6e_DPHyFB6gJzJbK2nHnVPrA-Lw88ZfeC0MVg_at_mail.gmail.com>



Chris, I haven't looked into it very deeply, but one of the things on my To-Do list is investigate/implement job scheduling through the OEM/Grid Control. Would that work in your application?

Regards,
Gus

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Chris Grabowy <cgrabowy_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Howdy.
>
> We currently have about 30 Redhat Linux servers running Oracle 11.2
>
> Recently for a short time the crontab entry for a production backup was
> commented out.
>
> Just last week one of the DBAs had "accidently" deleted all the backup
> scripts. The scripts directory is NFS mounted so it impacted every server.
>
> The Netbackup folks like to do maintenance during the day. Any Oracle
> backups that may have been running abort. These days we get notice from
> the Netbackup folks but it's kinda tricky to check 30 servers and determine
> if anything is running. Or kick off 30+ archive log backup scripts across
> all the servers to clean up the archive log directories before the
> Netbackup maintenance.
>
> Managing crontabs, jobs and scripts across 30 servers just doesn't seem to
> be working.
>
> Our company uses a job scheduling app called Tidal. The manager of that
> app demo'd the product to me and it seems like it can address many of our
> headaches. In theory a single simple interface to manage all the jobs
> scheduled across all the database servers.
>
> However one of the issues identified by the Linux admin is that the Tidal
> agent needs root access so he is reluctant to install the Tidal agent
> anywhere but a couple of designated Tidal servers.
>
> I am wondering if other sites have stopped using crontab? If so then what
> did you replace it with?
>
> Anyway, I am open to any thoughts, suggestions, etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Grabowy
>
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