24x7 Scheduler v6.2 (maintenance release) - What's New
January 23, 2023
NOTE: Version 6.2 introduces new major high availability features. An upgrade is provided from previous versions. See upgrade instructions for more details.
New Features and Changes- New high availability features - the 24x7 Scheduler now supports active-passive clusters with "share nothing" cluster configurations and automatic fail-over to standby node(s) in case of a primary node becoming unavailable. Changes in job database, scheduler settings, job logs, external scripts, and other job artifacts get automatically replicated across cluster nodes. Changes in user-defined directories required for running jobs can be automatically replicated as well. Cluster nodes can be setup in the same or different data centers including cloud hosted environments; the replication uses data encryption to ensure secure data transfers between cluster nodes.
- Multiple enhancements in the 24x7 Web-based management console.
Miscellaneous- A number of other minor enhancements.
24x7 Scheduler v6.1 (maintenance release) - What's New
March 20, 2022
NOTE: Version 6.1 introduces a couple of new major features and a number of minor enhancements. An upgrade is provided from previous versions. See upgrade instructions for more details.
New Features and Changes- Jobs now support user-defined variables that can be changed programmatically in job run-time. The variables can be passed to dependent jobs facilitating dynamic flow of data without a need for temporary files and global environment variables. This new feature enables spawning multiple sequential or parallel instances of the same job with different parameters.
- New macro-variable @V"var:var_name" can be used for injecting values of dynamic variables into job properties and command lines.
- The scheduler now supports user-defined scripted job notification actions that can be used for advanced job dependencies and alerting.
- Multiple enhancements in the 24x7 Web-based management console.
- Multiple enhancements in the 24x7 Scheduler graphical user interface.
- Web Console transition to Apache Tomcat 9.0 web server.
- Sanitized version of Apache log4j protected from all known vulnerabilities.
Miscellaneous- A number of minor enhancements.
24x7 Scheduler v6.0 (major release) - What's New
June 3, 2021
NOTE: Version 6.0 brings multiple new major features and enhancements. An upgrade is provided from previous versions. See upgrade instructions for more details.
New Features and Major Changes- The job database engine upgraded from XML database to relational database with many new capabilities.
- New job semaphoring mechanism using message queue and job multicasting.
- Auto-scaling groups for dynamic workload scaling, and for massive parallel job execution.
- Advanced custom reporting functions for running analytical and self-monitoring reports supporting new report formats, report scheduling, and more.
- Two dozens new prebuilt reports for system and job performance analysis, error reporting.
- Web services automation.
- Scripting engines now support XML and JSON data.
- Greatly enhanced command console covers many new management functions.
- Updated web console directly supporting new version 6.0 features, including designing and running reports directly from a web browser.
- Full transition to Java 1.8 and higher versions.
Miscellaneous- Many minor enhancements.