What's the point of the scheduler in admin console??

[mu664life]

I don't understand the point of the Admin Console's Scheduler. I deployed a KETTLE job to have it run every 5 minutes with the scheduler. It doesn't tell me any status about the job at all, fail? success?

Am I using the this incorrectly ??

I just want to manage all the KETTLE jobs so I can re-run a fail job when it happen.

please advice

thanx

[greg.banbury]

The Admin Console's scheduler is for scheduling reports published to the server.

If you want to schedule Kettle jobs the best way to do it is to create a cron entry if using Unix or a scheduled batch job in Windows calling the "Kitchen" application which is part of Kettle.

Check this wiki page: http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/EAI/Kitchen+User+Documentation

Let me know you how you get on.

Greg

[mu664life]

I'm getting by right now using cron to run all the jobs in kettle. I'm testing out Opensource Job Scheduler (http://jobscheduler.sourceforge.net/osource_scheduler_docu_en.htm) and it seems to be pretty promising. I really wish kettle will come with some kind of centralized scheduler, it'll make the debugging process much easier.