Does 24x7 scheduler record messages sent to stdout?

Hello,

We have our own logging system written in Java, and when it logs some message it also sends the message to the stdout. So if a job is run from the command line, the user should be able to see what is being sent to the log.

Does 24x7 listen to the stdout and keep the messages that was sent to the stdout anywhere?

Thanks

If you want to capture the output, you can specify output redirection on the command line, for example,

CMD /C myprogram.bat > c:\Logs\myprogram_@T"yyyymmdd_hhmmss".log

If you want both stdout and stderror

CMD /C myprogram.bat > c:\Logs\myprogram_@T"yyyymmdd_hhmmss".log 2>&1

You can also capture separately stdout and stderr; write to separate log files for every job instance, or append them to existing log files; or implement daily logs with rotation by using correct macro-parameters for file names and correct redirection symbols.

CMD /C myprogram.bat >> c:\Logs\myprogram_@T"yyyymmdd".log

To control the log history depth, you can use the FileDir utility http://www.softtreetech.com/24x7/archive/46.htm or something similar to periodically delete old log files, perhaps automatically delete job logs that are over 30 days old.

If you are running it on non-Windows system, you can use similar methods, using sh / c instead of cmd /C.

To automatically check the text captured from stdout, convert job to JavaScript job, read the log file after job run and scan it for errors, for example,
Process.runAndWait( ... );
log = File.readAll( ... );
if ( log.search( ... ) != -1 ) Mail.mailSend( ... ) or alternatively Scheduler.raiseError( ... )

If you need to do that for many jobs, I recommend to create a template and then use that template to quickly create the jobs.,