Remote Agent List

I have some software that creates jobs dynamically. I have run into an issue this morning because my remote agent machine crashed. My software uses the GetAgentList function to dynamically populate the HOST field within the JDL but because the remote had crashed the job failed. I then changed my code so that it uses the BACKUP_AGENT and BACKUP_HOST fields and left them blank because I want the Master Scheduler (the machine my software runs on) to be used as a backup. This seems to be ignored and I have checked the properties on the dynamic jobs and their is no entry for either the REMOTE_BACKUP or HOST_BACKUP fields.

Please can someone tell me what I am doing wrong.

Thanks

Nathan

GetAgentList is not reaching out to remote agents. This function simply reads agent profile names from the local registry..

If you have more then one agent and you want to job to try first the main agent and if that is not available fail-over to a different agent, populate HOST property with the main agent name and then populate BACKUP_HOST with the other agent(s) name. If specifying more than one agent for the BACK_HOST, save the value as a comma-separated list. Here is what is going to happen when this job is run. First the scheduler will make an attempt to contain the agent specified in the HOST property. If that agent is not responding, it will try the first agent specified in the BACKUP_HOST. If that is unavailable too, it will try the next. In any case, you always need to have the HOST property populated. In case you don't really care which agent runs the job, you can use the load balancing method. For that set HOST property to "[Least busy]" value and specify all agents that can run this job in the BACAKUP_HOST property as a comma-separated list.

Dont think this is working correctly because I have a Master Scheduler and a Remote Agent. The remote agent is in the list and called RM1. In my JDL I have the following:

HOST=RM1
BACKUP_HOST=

I have tried putting the name of my Master Scheduler in the BACKUP_HOST but it still seems to ignore it?

Nathan