Dollar Universe-Unrivaled Enterprise Job Scheduling

Dollar Universe provides true cross platform enterprise job scheduling. It gives users the tools necessary to manage complex distributed computing environments. Dollar Universe delivers unmatched availability and flexibility. Based on an innovative and unique Cooperative Architecture, Dollar Universe is designed for distributed open systems batch management. By taking advantage of distributed topology, our job scheduler gives users fault tolerant reliability, limitless scalability, and the ability to connect with every available legacy platform--guaranteed.

Cooperative Architecture: Foundation For Success

Cooperative Architecture allows Dollar Universe to equip each server with full automation capability. With Dollar Universe, each server in your system receives a full copy of the software to ensure high performance and continuous service regardless of the size or complexity of your network.

High Performance
Cooperative Architecture spreads scheduling and launching workloads across all the nodes in the network. This effectively removes performance and execution bottlenecks found in traditional master/slave models. Cooperative Architecture increases reaction times and performance of automation functions. This is especially true in high volume operations.

Fault Tolerant
By equipping each machine with a full copy of Dollar Universe, scheduled jobs continue normal local processing even if the network is unavailable--crucial in distributed environments. With Dollar Universe, if a local node fails it has no impact on the overall network.

Versatile And Easy To Manage
Administration and monitoring Dollar Universe is easy and flexible. Cooperative Architecture's client-server communications allows local and/or remote management of administration and supervisory functions. You choose a method that makes the most sense for your organization. The versatility of Dollar Universe lets it meet the requirements of the most demanding organizations.

Centralized Management
You define individual jobs, processing streams and associated scheduling data centrally and distribute to target machines. This is particularly useful when your configuration requires the same jobs to run in parallel on more than one machine. You also have the flexibility to adapt centrally defined parameters to specific local requirements.

Local Management
If your local servers host different applications, you can implement job definition and scheduling locally.

Blended Management
Local operations may be monitored locally. However, you can upload local job status to a central monitoring node, allowing for centralized problem resolution. A central operator can connect to a local node, diagnose problems, and take steps necessary to recover in real time.

Management Units-Powerful Concept Defines Best of Breed
At the heart of Dollar Universe lies the Management Unit. A Management Unit is a logical execution environment. It's a concept that defines Dollar Universe as a best-of-breed job scheduler for distributed and replicated environments.

Management Units let you build and manage operations processes using a logical view of your environment without direct reference to the physical configuration. This is powerful in distributed environments where hardware configurations change frequently. And processes built this way adapt automatically to changes in the logical or physical configuration.

How Management Units Work
The Management Unit is made possible by Dollar Universe's object oriented approach.

• In distributed environments, objects (calendars, rules, jobs, schedules, etc.) may be common to multiple servers. Dollar Universe uses an object approach.
• Objects are attached to Management Units not to hardware. Management Units are classified by Type. Once an object is defined, in a single operation you can attach it to all Management Units of the same Type, regardless of how numerous. This is a particularly effective way of managing a replicated environment. N identical environments may be managed as one.
• The object oriented approach minimizes the number of parameters you need to define and maintain, which speeds up implementation and changes. In addition it makes organizational and technical change easier. You can instantly reuse previously defined objects for new Management Units.
• When you distribute Management Unit parameters across the network, you can use generic addressing (e.g., send procedures and schedules to all Management Units of the type "Shop").
• You can also use generic and hierarchical addressing to enable triggering and job synchronization (e.g. run the same procedure on all Management Units of the type "Shop," or on all the "Shops" depending on the Management Unit "Region").
• Changes in the number of shops, their physical attachment to a machine, or their organization in regions will not affect the definition of operations processes involved. Organizational changes occur in the administration tables. Operations processes adapt automatically.

Job Description-Flexible and Easy To Use
Dollar Universe lets you define all types of processing streams no matter how complex. The drag and drop option in the intuitive graphic interface makes job definition child's play.

An elementary job, or Uproc, is an execution procedure. It is associated with a definition of its functional constraints (dependencies, incompatibilities, physical and logical resources, etc.). You can schedule Uprocs individually, or you can group Uprocs together in a sequence template called a Session. Then you simply schedule the Session header. When you do this Uprocs within the Session are submitted according to the defined sequence. This includes automatic error processing. More importantly, Session allows constraints of a more technical nature (e.g., restore database) to be expressed above the applications logic reflected at the Uproc level.

Fast and Powerful Scheduling

• Dollar Universe's powerful scheduling algorithms satisfy the most demanding requirements. Moreover, Uprocs and Sessions simulation allow you to verify scheduling algorithms prior to activation.
• Calendars represent the daily characteristics (working, closing, holiday day). You can define multiple calendars.
• Dollar Universe comes with a standard set of scheduling rules. You can also create scheduling rules for special cases (e.g., 8th workday before the end of a 23-day period except for Tuesdays and Thursdays). The same rule (e.g., every workday) will adjust to the different calendars.
• A launch window determines the earliest and latest launch times, day by day. Uprocs and Sessions may also have multiple launches per day.

Implementation and Deployment
Dollar Universe provides a creative development and implementation environment. It offers four parallel environments, or Areas, with totally separate data and services. These four Areas enable progressive tuning of applications processes throughout their life cycle without data or logical conflicts. From the development, through integration, acceptance and finally deployment into the Production Area you can easily test and transfer processes between Areas without risking corruption of production data. Parallel Areas significantly diminishes the number of errors encountered during applications deployment. In each Area, Dollar Universe tracks management of objects by version, making it easy to change and restore objects.

Efficient Workload Balancing
To efficiently spread the workload over time and across the configuration, Dollar Universe features a load balancing function built upon batch queue management. This regulates the number of running jobs and optimizes system resources.

Operations Monitoring


Dollar Universe supplies operators with both a graphic and a character and command mode Job Monitor. The Job Monitor gives operators a clear view of the past, present and future. It lets them filter displays according to standard (job status, execution date, jobname, etc.) and user defined criteria. Several levels of information facilitate operator access to the data required to diagnose problems before taking steps to recover.

For more information on how Dollar Universe can improve your operations and your bottom line, contact us at sales@orbitsw.co.uk or call +44-1306-744800

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