What is a job scheduler API?

A job scheduler API is a programming interface that allows developers to automate and control the scheduling of jobs within a software environment. This type of API enables the creation, management and deletion of jobs. Through endpoints exposed by the API, users can specify job details such as job name, runtime and the specific automation schema in the request body. Functions typically include running jobs at predetermined times or in response to specified events, managing job retries and overseeing job execution statuses. Job scheduler APIs are essential in environments like Google Cloud, where managing and scaling numerous tasks efficiently is crucial. Finding the right process automation tool for IT.

What is an API scheduler?

An API scheduler refers to a tool or service that organizes and controls the timing and order of API calls within software applications or between services. It helps to efficiently manage the execution of multiple API requests by scheduling them based on predetermined conditions or dynamic requirements. This tool is especially useful for handling dependencies among tasks and making sure API calls occur at the right moment to maintain system integrity and performance. Features of an API scheduler include webhook and callback setup, permissions handling and authentication with API keys to secure communication through headers. Discover how to rapidly create APIs for reliable end-to-end processes, without custom scripting so your team can achieve more, faster.

What is the API specification of a task scheduler?

The API specification of a task scheduler outlines the technical details and protocol for interacting with the task scheduling service. This specification includes definitions of available endpoints, supported API calls, data structures and...

Architecture and High Availability

The Complexities of Today's Modern IT Environments

Gartner research indicates that most organizations have between three and eight scheduling and automation tools in place. That’s because as IT and business environments become more complex, many IT teams attempt to simplify with an array of application- and platform-specific scheduling and automation tools and scripts. This approach, however, results in multiple licensing, support, and training costs, greater resource requirements and manual efforts, and more complexity.

To gain maximum benefits from workload automation, organizations must take a more holistic approach.

ActiveBatch Workload Automation provides a central point of control that reliably manages operational requirements, complex dependencies between workflows, and technology integrations across the enterprise.

ActiveBatch Architecture

A Scalable Automation Architecture for All Your Needs

ActiveBatch Workload Automation is client-server based, and all aspects of ActiveBatch can be fully distributed, giving users a highly flexible, scalable solution. ActiveBatch consists of three major components:

These components can reside on either a single machine or multiple machines, and each component can have multiple instances.

Job Scheduler

The ActiveBatch Job Scheduler is responsible for the overall orchestration and operation of the ActiveBatch system and manages several types of ActiveBatch Objects, including jobs and plans.

Execution Agents

Execution agents are the cross-platform components responsible for running ActiveBatch Jobs. Once a job is ready to execute, the job scheduler communicates with a server’s execution agent. The execution agent is the cross-platform component of the ActiveBatch system, supporting:

Windows Linux UNIX OpenVMS	AIX NSK OS X z/OS

Programmatic Interfaces

ActiveBatch Web Console ActiveBatch Self-Service Portal ActiveBatch Mobile Ops (iOS and Android) Web Services API	.NET/COM API PowerShell Module Command Line

Improve Job Success Rate with High Availability

With ActiveBatch’s Non-Cluster Failover Add-In, organizations can experience reliable high availability in the event of a potential outage or failure. ActiveBatch Non-Cluster Failover operates in active-standby mode, monitoring the heartbeat of the job scheduler. If there is a failure or an outage, or the primary job scheduler is otherwise determined to be unresponsive, jobs and plans will be directed to standby systems so they are executed and completed on or near schedule.

ActiveBatch Non-Cluster Failover for High Availability allows for:

Dynamic failover due to loss of an application (job scheduler), server/VM, or connectivity from job scheduler to database, to ensure jobs run as scheduled.
Manual failover from the primary job scheduler to a standby job scheduler at times when a server needs to be patched or when an unexpected reboot is needed.

What ActiveBatch Users are Saying

“If it’s digital, ActiveBatch can do it.”

—System Administrator, First Rate