Platinum Technology Inc’s latest version of its AutoSys job management and scheduling tool for distributed Unix environments now includes Simple Network Management Protocol support for integration with third party network and system management environments such as HP OpenView. Platinum says the new 3.2 version has a utility for migrating from rudimentary Unix job schedulers, such as kron, to a complete job management offering via AutoSys. As well as a new AutoSys/Xpert graphical tool set version 3.2 now also supports AIX 4.1, HP-UX 10.0 and Oracle7 7.1, user-defined global variables and a one-time run-time override for job definition. AutoSys includes an event processor, relational database and remote agent. The database stores all events and job information. The event processor, the brains of AutoSys, reads events and job descriptions from the database and instructs the remote agents to perform specific tasks. After the tasks are performed, the agent sends the status results to the database. The product is a component of Platinum’s Open Enterprise Environment. Version 3.2 is out at the end of July starting at $9,000 for the scheduling server, and $500 for each job execution client. AutoSys/Xpert 1.0 is a new graphical front-end tool for AutoSys 3.2. It includes two common forms of project management charting, TimeScape, which it describes as a time-based Gantt-chart view of job processing; JobScape, a Pert-chart picture of job-flow structures, and HostScape, which presents a view of the job stream in relation to the physical machines on which the jobs run. All three come with real-time and simulation modes. AutoSys/Xpert 1.0 ships at the end of next month as an add-on tool to AutoSys 3.2, costing from $20,000. Tivoli Systems Inc sells a version of AutoSys 3.2 as Tivoli/Workload. AutoSys/Xpert is not available through Tivoli but will be sold through Platinum itself.
