Enterprise job scheduling is a mature and mission-critical IT capability that supports some of the most important business processes throughout a modern enterprise. Areas like accounting, ordering, inventory, and procurement are all likely to rely on job scheduling technology. Most common job scheduling architectures involve deploying agent software on every system in the enterprise. However, depending on the parameters of the situation, these agents may be more expensive to install and maintain. Learn more today!
Faster, Cheaper, Safer: Improving Agility, TCO,
and Security with Agentless Job Scheduling
A White Paper Prepared for BMC Software November 2008Table of Contents
Executive Summary.............................................................................................................................................................................1
Introduction .........................................................................................................................................................................................1
The Current Standard - Agent-Based Scheduling.........................................................................................................................1
The Revolution - Agentless Job Scheduling...................................................................................................................................1How It Works..................................................................................................................................................................................2Benefits of Agentless Job Scheduling.........................................................................................................................................2Recommended Use Cases.............................................................................................................................................................3
EMA's Perspective................................................................................................................................................................................3
About BMC Software..........................................................................................................................................................................4Faster, Cheaper, Safer: Improving Agility, TCO,
and Security with Agentless Job Scheduling
Executive Summary Job scheduling has expanded from its inception as a Enterprise job scheduling is a mature and mission- single-platform solution, to an enterprise-wide system, critical IT capability that supports some of the most with the most common architecture requiring schedul-important business processes throughout a modern ing agents to be installed throughout the enterprise. This enterprise. Areas like accounting, ordering, inventory, agent-based approach can create security issues, impact and procurement are all likely to rely on job scheduling compliance, and add to the total cost of ownership. technology. Most common job scheduling architectures New technology from BMC Software addresses these involve deploying agent software on every system in the issues with agentless job scheduling - a revolution in job enterprise. However, depending on the parameters of scheduling that provides highly functional and secure the situation, these agents may be more expensive to job scheduling capabilities without requiring an agent install and maintain. on each managed system.
BMC Software is addressing these potential issues with This EMA white paper will explore some of the byprod-a revolutionary solution - agentless job scheduling ucts of agent-based job scheduling, review the imple-with BMC CONTROL-M. This solution provides a mentation and benefits of agentless job scheduling, and way to schedule, submit, and monitor jobs on almost provide recommendations for deploying job scheduling any platform without installing a local agent using in- using both agent-based and agentless job scheduling.dustry standard communication protocols. This makes deployment faster, more cost-effective, and secure; The Current Standard - Agent-Based ensures a very broad range of compatible systems; and Schedulingreduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Importantly, The current standard for enterprise job schedulers is BMC CONTROL-M offers a choice of agentless and based on having dedicated agents on every system. These agent-based capabilities, providing users with the best agents are lightweight in most cases, allowing scheduling of both worlds to meet their enterprise production servers ("the brain") to execute, monitor and control management requirements. jobs on the platforms that the agents are installed on. In addition, they also provide a set of scheduling utilities Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) believes that... [download for more]
