Duty3G/Duty3G 5.1 Release Notes

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Revision as of 09:08, 20 September 2006

Overview and Features

Duty3G

Duty3G V5.1 is a job control and batch job scheduling application that provides network-wide job execution with comprehensive inter-task dependencies. It can manage the entire production control of your Data Center. You use COStask to:•submit or schedule pre-defined jobs•manage running jobs (hold/release/kill etc.)•monitor job output•handle and recover from error conditions.

New features in Duty3G V5.1

Key features of the new release are:

Enhanced operations

• Enhanced schedules, for example, a Weekday schedule can now exclude public holidays.
• You can now assign duties to a class/folder, so the duty name no longer needs to be prefixed with a Class or Category. Now it is much easier to locate that ‘XYZ’ duty.
• You can now order duties in the order they should be performed, so the duty name no longer needs to be prefixed with a Sequence number
• You can now force the user to re-authenticate before running certain duties giving added security.
• Duties can now be auto disabled and/or auto re-enabled on given dates. This is useful during system rollouts or migration projects.
• Duties are now run asynchronously, meaning if you have a long running duty it no longer stops you from running another duty.
• As a duty is performed, that duty is now “locked” so no other user can run the same duty with possible undesirable results.
• End user's can set their own start-up view (at-request or outstanding duties) and start-up Class, along with a reminder period before duties become overdue.
• End user’s can now view upcoming scheduled duties for a selected day or date in the future – “What has to be done on Friday?”. This is also useful for Administrators to check that duties have been scheduled correctly, for example, making sure certain duties are not scheduled for Christmas Day.
• You can now filter your view of duties:

• for a selected class
• that run on a selected host
• for a selected users' role

Improved auditing

• Filtering has been added to make viewing the Duty audit trail more meaningful:

• by selected time period
• that have ended in error
• for selected duty
• for selected user
• for selected mode

• Duty audit trail entries are now colour coded to make it easier to spot abnormal entries.
• New duty compliance reports are generated daily and can be viewed at any time. These reports highlight failed, missed and skipped duties – exceptions that affect operations compliance.

Documentation

• An HTML or text document can now be associated with a duty, so end users can see what Policies and Procedures the duty is supporting.
• You can now link directly to online help (user guide), release notes and other documentation, and even report a bug via duty3G

Installation Requirements

Software prerequisites

To install and run Duty3G V5.1 on a host, you must have:

• COSmanager V4.2.5 or later already installed on the host (see the COSmanager User Guide for instructions)
• a duty3G distribution
• a valid license key for this host (see your COSmanager distributor if you don’t have a valid license key)
• sufficient disk space
• COSmanager Manager access, or equivalent
• the ability to open a root shell

Disk space required

Running Remote Tasks on Windows/NTThe current COStask release supports running remote tasks on NT hosts which have the EBC (Enterprise Backup Client) V2.1 installed. This product may be purchased separately. Functional Software is likely to release an NT agent specially for COStask in the near future.