ROC Maestro for Open Systems™
Job scheduling that sets the standard for ease of use
ROC Maestro for Open Systems provides a very easy method for scheduling and managing workloads, processes, dependencies and events across complex, heterogeneous IT environments. For environments that involve UNIX®, Linux®, Windows® or legacy platforms such as HP e3000, ROC Maestro for Open Systems dramatically simplifies job scheduling administration while expanding your operational reach.
With ROC Maestro for Open Systems, resource constraints are not an issue. The lightweight, small footprint means you don't need a separate server or large external database to run your cross-platfom job scheduling. What's more, the system's sophisticated GUI makes it all so easy to use. You'll protect your existing IT investments, ensure smooth automated batch processing and save valuable administrative time and resources.
Power, visibility and centralized control.
The ability to automate and monitor processes based on reusable calendars, events, cross-platform dependencies and reporting is so easy with ROC Maestro for Open Systems. It's all about getting the centralized control and visibility you need without constantly dealing with the subtle differences between platforms and applications.
ROC Maestro for Open Systems consolidates job scheduling across UNIX, Windows and Linux systems within a very powerful, yet simple interface. This enables IT to easily track and manage schedules, tasks, job status and job history while speeding resolution of problems with flexible error detection and recovery. IT personnel can easily track their schedules of jobs and tasks with ROC Maestro for Open Systems. Job status can be immediately recognized by the display color, while quick views reveal jobs that are inactive, active, running, held, or require assistance. Remote administration, comprehensive logging and reporting, secure designation of users and groups further enhance the administrator's level of control. It's all built-in to lighten the load on IT, improve response times and increase service levels.
The systems recovery facility in ROC Maestro for Open Systems ensures that aborted jobs are addressed automatically. After detecting failed jobs, ROC Maestro for Open Systems puts dependent jobs on hold while it initiates any combination of the following recovery actions: alert the operator, run a recovery job, stop processing, rerun the original job, or continue with the next job(s) in the queue. Maestro also easily incorporates and controls jobs it did not schedule to prevent overloading and conflicts.
A UNIX or Linux system serves as the scheduling master. The master can be administered by using its native GUI, logging into it remotely, or by installing the GUI of ROC Maestro for Open Systems that allows administration from a Windows PC.
Move beyond the limitations of built-in schedulers
Built-in schedulers provided within operating systems, databases or applications do not offer the centralized control and flexibility required to efficiently manage even the small enterprise. For example, it's expensive to maintain CRON on each and every server. It's a drain for IT to log into machine after machine, sifting through log files and scripts to track tasks that have no centralized scheduling, states or result information.
With limited security, no dependencies, prerequisites, recovery from system failure, auditing or reporting - built-in job schedulers simply do not pass the cost vs. benefit analysis. Do you need to integrate processes and monitor and react to events in real time? Built-in schedulers simply do not provide the power you need. With ROC Maestro for Open Systems, your automated batch processing will run with fewer interruptions - reducing the negative impact of downtime on your staff and your systems.
The safe choice when moving to open systems
If you're moving to open systems, ROC Maestro for Open Systems enables a smooth transition during this critical time. For those experienced with Maestro for MPE, ROC Maestro for Open Systems uses the same key ideas, concepts and flexible, reusable calendars that you're familiar with. This makes your job scheduling migration straightforward and lowers your training and transition cost. What's more, should you need assistance, ROC Software is there with award-winning support and migration expertise as you make the important move to new technology platforms.
