Scheduling Recurring Jobs - Best Practices

This article aims to briefly present the best practices and suggest tools to plan and monitor recurring jobs with Activeeon’s solution. The main concerns are addressed through different features and services:

• Schedule management through the Job Planner service,
• Workflow validity and management through the Catalog,
• Notification on event with an integrated feature to be more proactive,
• Requirements checks prior to execution through a selection script to avoid unnecessary issues.

Job Planner

The Job Planner is a service included in ProActive to manage recurring jobs. The main benefits are:

• Dedicated and centralized interface,
• Clear forecast of workflows,
• Simplified management of exceptions: additional executions and/or exclusion periods.

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Activeeon supports Python natively

In an objective to build an open platform for Machine Learning workflows and better data analytics, the latest release of Activeeon's solution includes a native Python task.

To keep it to the main benefits:

• Analyzing data in Python using numpy, pandas, TensorFlow, etc. is now greatly simplified.
• Native Python tasks run 10 to 100 times faster than Jython tasks.
• It fully integrates with existing system such as Generic Information or Variable propagation.
• Multiple Python versions are supported , even within the same workflow.

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