UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

now, I tried looking at the User manuals I can find on the internet concerning autosys but these manuals seem to be quite confusing to me.

My question is, does anyone have a straight forward explanation on how to modify and/or create jobs in autosys???

You can create/modify jobs either through the GUI interface (Schedular console) or you can script it with the JIL command. Here is a sample JIL code.
/* ----------------- sample_ls ----------------- */

insert_job: sample_ls job_type: c
command: ls -l
machine: unixboxa
owner: user123
permission: wx,mx,we,me
description: "runs an ls -l as user123"
job_terminator: 1
alarm_if_fail: 0

so, after creating that JIL code, how do you implement it into autosys in order to monitor and verify its completion??

and, do you have any idea on how I can troubleshoot batch processes in autosys????? (it really does matter which batch process, any batch process will do but it has to be in autosys)


Thank you

Suppose that you save the code into code.txt you would do the following;
jil < code.txt

and if you wanted a log:
jil <code.txt >code.log

This has to be done from an autosys command line.
Once the code is in the autosys database, you can use autorep to check the status of a job or box. For example, to check the status of sample_ls you would type:

autorep -j sample_ls

And to view the underlying JIL code, you would type:

autorep -j sample_ls -q

There are numerous other options and you really should read an Autosys guide to get an uderstanding of the relationships between jobs and boxes, runstatus, etc.
As far as troubleshooting batch problems, autosys writes an autoremote log file, and that file is placed where you specify in your setup of autosys. For example, the file might be in the /tmp directory and called auto_rem.389743.93299.1
The file should always start with auto_rem and the numbers that follow will correspond to the job ID in the database.