Windows Agent

[robert....@rcom-i.co.uk]

Hi Ronald,
  The Schedulix FAQ states the following:  "Schedulix is currently addressed to Linux users. With only a few adaptions schedulix can also be used on UNIX/POSIX and Windows environments."

  Is there any documentation on how to build a Windows agent?

  Sometime this week I need to prove to my company that I can run and monitor jobs via Schedulix on Windows servers.  They should all be Windows Server 20xx but there may be one Windows XP machine which needs to have an agent.

  Regards

RobC

[Sabelo Dlangamandla]

Hello Robert,

The is currently no documentation specific to Windows, but if you could compile the schedulix software on Windows then the rest is standard as documented on the installation guide. If issues arises am sure the community can help to trouble-shoot those. I have already installed the agents on a Solaris machine with the help of the community.

Regards

Sabelo

[Ronald Jeninga]

Hi RobC,

at the moment we don't have any documentation on that topic, sorry about that.
Since our open source launch isn't very old yet, only a few moths, we don't have an open source version for Windows available at the moment.
(Admitted, we're more unix/linux guys ;)

Anyway, I don't want to block your efforts getting schedulix to run, so I propose the following:

- I'll upload a zip file containing a jobserver.exe, a BICsuite.dll and some batchfiles, probably tomorrow
- I'll send you a private e-mail as soon as I'm ready
- I'll additionally post the link to the zip file in this thread (so others can participate too)

Using the BICsuite installation guide, which is available at our company website (http://www.independit.de), you won't have troubles installing a windows jobserver as a foreground task. So far I didn't have problems on any Windows system (starting from Windows 2000). I didn't try Windows8 yet though.
At the moment we're working on a windows version of scrolllog, which will make the installation of jobservers and/or a scheduling server almost identical to the linux installation. But as long as we don't have that ready and tested, we're not going to distribute it. It is planned that it'll run from Windows XP SP3 upwards. For the time being, if you want to run the jobserver as a service, you can use some wrapper software like http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org (we use this on some productive windows systems).

@sabelo:
Thank you for your input! I'm happy if I'm not the only one answering here, that's why we have a "group".
Anyway, compiling for windows is not an easy task (after our rewrite, it'll be easier, but not trivial). Of course, anyone is free to try. Basically you'll have to make a port of libunix.cc. This is doable, but as I understood, there's a deadline to meet, which makes it stressful.
As usual, I will help if I can...

Regards,

Ronald

[Ronald Jeninga]

Hi all,

I just uploaded a zip file with the required files for a jobserver installation on a windows system.
You can get it at

http://www.independit.de/Downloads/jswin.zip

Important Disclaimer:
ALTHOUGH THIS IS CLOSED SOURCE SOFTWARE, IT IS DISTRIBUTED AS IS IN AN OPEN SOURCE ENVIRONMENT.
THERE IS NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WE JUST HOPE IT WILL BE USEFUL.

I'm sorry to have been so loud, that's not my style, but it was important to have noted it.

Regards,

Ronald

PS. And just in case, the md5sum of my local version of the zip file is:
$ md5sum jswin.zip
5eff55ea152404b74349e6cc0e00f8db  jswin.zip