Skybot Scheduler is the easy-to-use, yet powerful job scheduling system for Windows, UNIX, and Linux servers. With Skybot Scheduler, you can build an event-driven schedule quickly and easily across multiple platforms.

Reduce Errors & Increase Efficiency

When day-to-day operations and maintenance are automated by Skybot Scheduler, your business runs more smoothly, reliably, and with fewer errors than those managed by human operators or dependent on time-based job schedules.

Focus on More Important Projects

By automating cross-system monitoring and execution of Windows tasks, cron jobs, or other batch scheduling processes, Skybot Scheduler frees you and your staff to concentrate on projects that add value to your business.

Access & Monitor Your Systems
from Anywhere

Skybot Scheduler's intuitive, graphical interface can be accessed from any web browser, which means you can schedule and monitor your entire operations from virtually anywhere.

Deploys in Minutes—Not Weeks

A modern job scheduling system like Skybot Scheduler is easy to install, set up, and use. You don’t need an expensive on-site implementation team. The Import Center makes it easy to move jobs and schedules from testing to production for faster implementation and less risk. You can even upload jobs from other Windows job scheduling or Linux job scheduler tools and convert them to Skybot Scheduler.

Most of your jobs can be scheduled in less than a minute.
Skybot Scheduler has over 25 schedule options to choose from, including: Day of Week, Day of Period, and Interval.

For jobs that don't follow a repeatable pattern, it's easy to add Date Lists or Calendars, such as a Fiscal Year.

Maximize Efficiency with Reactivity
& Event-Driven Scheduling

Event-driven scheduling goes beyond calendars and lets you automate entire processes.

Jobs are initiated by events—the completion of Event A triggers the start of Event B. An event can be the completion of another job, a file arrival, a process starting or ending on another system, and more.

Skybot Scheduler also can check for resources like minimum
drive space or an active TCP server, before running a job.

Save Time with Job Suites & Agent Groups

Job Suites let you group multiple jobs or complex workflows
and refer to them as one process, removing excess detail and reducing maintenance.

You can reuse jobs across multiple Job Suites and quickly understand the relationships between processes.

If you have Job Suites that need to run on multiple systems,
Agent Groups makes it easy to set up that scenario.

You can launch all of Skybot Scheduler's tools—History, Schedule Activity Monitor, Dashboard, Forecasts, and more—directly from your browser.

Simply open a web browser and start creating jobs, setting up automatic notification, and managing events across all of your Windows, UNIX, and Linux servers.

Track & Review Completed Jobs

History pages make it easy to track and review your Jobs, Monitors, and Output Distribution. If there is an error, it's easy
to find and fix the problem quickly. For example, Job History
tells you:

• How long a job ran.
• Whether it completed normally.
• If the job was terminated.
• All the times the job ran.

Need to keep a log of when jobs run, start, and finish?
Simply run a History report.

See Current Activity at a Glance

The Schedule Activity Monitor (SAM) provides a graphical display of all current activity in your network, and you can filter the view for more detailed information. SAM helps you recognize variations and inefficiencies in your schedule, and gives you full control to run, hold, or release jobs on the fly.

Spot Schedule Trends

The Dashboard helps you quickly identify trends in your schedule. With charts and graphs based on recent information from your schedule, you can quickly see:

• How many jobs ended or terminated recently.
• Which agent systems ran the most jobs.
• How many Job Monitors or Agent Events were processed.

Understand Dependencies

Skybot Scheduler's Job Flow Diagrams display the dependencies between jobs and system events in your enterprise. Use Job Flow Diagrams to:

• Reference processes during planning meetings.
• Train new operators.

Like a good blueprint, Job Flow Diagrams show you how everything fits together.

Plan Workloads

Forecasting is necessary to run your workload efficiently. Skybot Scheduler's Forecast displays the expected start time, run time, and prerequisite jobs. Use the chart to:

• Spot gaps in the schedule.
• Shift the workload to maximize system usage.
• Signal when a system upgrade is needed.

Skybot Scheduler's role-based security ensures that users only have access to the parts of the product they need and makes managing user profiles and passwords easier for system administrators.

Map your LDAP or Active Directory® (AD) groups to existing Skybot Scheduler user roles, and you can change the privileges
for a whole group of users on one screen.

With a virtually limitless combination of security options, Skybot Scheduler makes it possible to secure functions by department, division, geographic location, or customer.

Protect Your Schedule
from Unplanned Downtime

Skybot Scheduler’s high availability (HA) setup protects your processes from unplanned system downtime with real-time database replication to a standby server. Skybot Scheduler provides automatic agent switchover once the standby
server has been activated.

Cover Your Compliance Bases

Skybot Scheduler's Audit History provides an enormous boost for reaching compliance requirements—Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), PCI, and HIPAA. It tracks the user, date, and time for all changes to the schedule across your entire network.

The Audit History is your one stop shop to find who created a new job or event monitor, who changed a job setup or commands, who forced a job to run outside its scheduled time, and more.

A log of the changes is kept in the database on
the central server, which makes reporting quick
and easy.

With Skybot Scheduler's built-in notification, you'll easily meet,
or exceed, your SLAs. If an important job fails, Job Monitors let you know automatically via:

• Email
• Text message
• SNMP trap to open a problem ticket

Notification Lists let you create groups of users, including non-Skybot Scheduler users. For example, you could send an email to the accounting team when a specific job has completed. Notification Lists can be used when monitoring jobs, system events, SNMP traps, or your connected servers.

Send File Updates Immediately

Do you have jobs that generate updates to files that need to
be viewed immediately for additional processing, reporting, or archiving? Skybot Scheduler's Output Distribution feature lets you automatically send job logs via email, save important files to the server, or send output files as an email attachment.

File Transfers Made Easy

Skybot Scheduler makes it easy to securely transfer files to any remote system. Schedule file transfers without having to manually enter the syntax, or even know the syntax.

Simply define your FTP system, specify which files to transfer and which directories to work in, and Skybot Scheduler writes the command for you—automatically.

If you have one remote system that multiple jobs send files to,
you don't need to enter the system information for every job.
File Transfer Systems let you define remote systems in one spot,
then quickly select that system when creating jobs.

Skybot Scheduler supports FTP, FTP Secure, Secure FTP protocols, and IBM iSeries systems with IFS.

Integrating Informatica Workflows

The Informatica interface allows you to quickly build advanced schedules that integrate PowerCenter^® workflows with other IT and business processes. Get the control and visibility you need to run your ETLs, reports, and other data integration processes as efficiently as possible.

Managing Microsoft SQL Server Jobs

In addition to including your SQL Server jobs into your production job stream, the Skybot Scheduler SQL Server Interface lets you:

• Directly schedule your SSIS packages.
• Check conditions before a job executes, such as the availability of a SQL Server.
• Use Agent Groups to set up a single SQL Server job that runs on multiple servers.

Scheduling Your UNIX or Linux Cron Job

Skybot Scheduler makes it easy to run your cron scripts as part
of a cross-system job stream.

• Import existing crontabs into a Skybot Scheduler Job.
• Use the "Cron Expression" option to schedule new jobs
  using the familiar cron syntax you are used to.

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