Welcome from Mastering Job Arranger for Zabbix!
A place where you can learn how to design and deploy 'Job Arranger For Zabbix' for small-medium-large size deployments.
What is Job Arranger for Zabbix?
Job Arranger for Zabbix (JAZ) is free and open source job scheduling software.
It is a third-party tool for
Zabbix.
What can I do?
Certainly most kind of infrastructure automation is possible.
- Schedule your routine tasks to run on right time.
- Schedule and monitor complex batch processes from one streamlined, intuitive interface.
- Run time-based, condition-based, event-driven jobs.
- Automate your systems, applications, databases, servers etc.
- And much more.
Features
Some of main features:
- Centralized Management - manage and monitor the jobs, schedules and calendars centrally.
- High performance, High capacity, High stability - highly reliable.
- Multiple calendars - you can create multiple calendars such as for whole year, business days, public holidays, etc.
- Multiple schedules - you can have multiple schedules to run the jobs.
- Simple version control of jobs - you can create and manage multiple versions for each job.
- Multi-platforms native agents - native agents(high performance) are available for Linux, Windows, AIX and HP-UX.
- Agentless(ssh protocol) - you can run jobs without installing native agents.
- Parallel processing - run the jobs in parallel.
- Loop processing - loop processing is available.
- Conditional branch processing - run the jobs based on conditions.
- File transfer between hosts - easily transfer files between hosts.
- File waiting - check file existence or wait until it is created.
- Reboot - easily reboot your server.
- Notification to Zabbix - notify to Zabbix.
- Refer/Change the status of item/trigger/host in Zabbix - easily manage items/triggers/hosts in Zabbix, limited.
- Refer the data of item in Zabbix - get item data from Zabbix.
System Architecture
The following diagram shows the architecture of only Job Arranger for Zabbix.
Since Job Arranger for Zabbix is a third-party tool for Zabbix, when it is integrated with Zabbix, the architecture will be as following diagram.
The following diagram shows a more complete real-world deployment architecture.
Getting Started
Have you already install the Zabbix? If no then follow the steps at Server World to install it.
Then,
Explore all available icon to design a complete and robust jobnet.