Introduction

• Cron is a service daemon available with most Unix operating systems.
  • Cron offers minimal scheduling capabilities by executing an operating system command or script at a given point in time.
  • Cron jobs are configured from a crontab file that is globally available and that can be made available per operating system account.
  • Cron does not consider any job dependencies, job execution results, job history and resource consumption when executing jobs.
• Cron is frequently used as an entry level to job scheduling. The JS7 covers any capabilities available with Cron Jobs.
• Migration of Cron jobs is offered from the JS7 Configuration view with the Convert operation.

Crontab Migration

• Let's assume a crontab file with the following content:
  
  

   */30 * * * *  /path_to_file/file.sh >> /path_to_file/file.log    2>&1
  

• Let's further assume that this file is located in /tmp/my_crontab.

The migration to JS7 includes the following steps:

• TBD