System and method for managing jobs in heterogeneous environments

• US 20060017969A1
• Filed: 07/20/2005
• Published: 01/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CA, Inc. (d/b/a CA Technologies) (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: CA, Inc. (d/b/a CA Technologies) (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Chen, Edward F., Padmanabhan, Arun, Ly, An V.
• Granted Patent: US 9,600,216 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.150
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1207 resulting in the user being informed about print result after a job submission
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1259 Print job monitoring, e.g. job status
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1261 by using alternate printing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1288 in client-server-printer device configuration

Abstract

A system and method for managing jobs are provided. A job manager is operable to normalize a command submitted by a user. The job manager then executes a first job associated with a first operating environment in response to the normalized command and executes a second job associated with a second operating environment in response to the normalized command. The first operating environment and the second operating environment are heterogeneous.

Claims

1. A job manager operable to:

normalize a command submitted by a user;

execute a first job associated with a first operating environment in response to the normalized command; and

execute a second job associated with a second operating environment in response to the normalized command, wherein the first operating environment and the second operating environment are heterogeneous.

2. The job manager of claim 1, further operable to:

transmit the first job to a first job scheduler residing at the first operating environment, the first job scheduler operable to processes the first job; and

transmit the second job to a second job scheduler residing at the second operating environment, the second job scheduler operable to processes the second job.

3. The job manager of claim 1, wherein the job manager operable to execute the first job and the second job comprises the job manager operable to:

invoke a first adapter to convert a first job request to a form compatible with the first operating environment;

invoke a second adapter to convert a second job request to a form compatible with the second operating environment; and

transmit the converted first job request to the first operating environment and the converted second job request to the second operating environment.

4. The job manager of claim 3, wherein the first adapter resides at the first operating environment and the second adapter resides in the second operating environment.

5. The job manager of claim 3, the first job request and the second job request comprising identical values and the converted first job request a different value from the converted second job request.

6. The job manager of claim 1, further operable to:

retrieve a first job status from the first operating environment, the first job status associated with the first job;

retrieve a second job status from the second operating environment, the second job status associated with the second job;

normalize the first job status and the second job status using normalization profiles; and

present the normalized first job status and the normalized second job status to a user.

7. The job manager of claim 1, further operable to:

identify a filter compatible with a plurality of operating environments including at least the first operating environment and the second operating environment;

compare the filter to the normalized first job status and to the normalized second job status for determining matches; and

present jobs that match the filter to the user.

8. The job manager of claim 1, the job manager comprising:

a first worker thread associated with the first operating environment, the first worker thread operable to process the first normalized command;

a second worker thread associated with the second operating environment, the second worker thread operable to process the second normalized command;

a first adapter associated with the first worker thread, the first adapter operable to convert the first normalized command to a form compatible with the first operating environment; and

a second adapter associated with the second worker thread, the second adapter operable to convert the second normalized command to a form compatible with the second operating environment.

9. A system for managing jobs in heterogeneous environments, comprising:

memory storing policies for normalizing commands from a plurality of users; and

one or more processors operable to;

normalize a particular command submitted by a particular user based on the policies;

execute a first job associated with a first operating environment in response to the normalized command; and

execute a second job associated with a second operating environment in response to the normalized command, wherein the first operating environment and the second operating environment are heterogeneous.

10. The system of claim 9, the processors further operable to:

transmit the first job to a first job scheduler residing at the first operating environment, the first job scheduler operable to processes the first job; and

transmit the second job to a second job scheduler residing at the second operating environment, the second job scheduler operable to processes the second job.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the one or more processors operable to execute the first job and the second job comprises the one or more processors operable to:

invoke a first adapter to convert a first job request to a form compatible with the first operating environment;

invoke a second adapter to convert a second job request to a form compatible with the second operating environment; and

transmit the converted first job request to the first operating environment and the converted second job request to the second operating environment.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the first adapter resides at the first operating environment and the second adapter resides at the second operating environment.

13. The system of claim 11, the first job request and the second job request comprising identical values and the converted first job request a different value from the converted second job request comprising different values.

14. The system of claim 9, the one or more processors further operable to:

retrieve a first job status from the first operating environment, the first job status associated with the first job;

retrieve a second job status from the second operating environment, the second job status associated with the second job;

normalize the first job status and the second job status; and

present the normalized first job status and the normalized second job status to a user.

15. The system of claim 9, the one or more processors further operable to:

identify a filter compatible with a plurality of operating environments including at least the first operating environment and the second operating environment;

compare the filter to the normalized first job status and to the normalized second job status for determining matches; and

present jobs that match the filter to the user.

16. The system of claim 9, the processors executing:

a first worker thread associated with the first operating environment, the first worker thread operable to process the first normalized command;

a second worker thread associated with the second operating environment, the second worker thread operable to process the second normalized command;

a first adapter associated with the first worker thread, the first adapter operable to convert the first normalized command to a form compatible with the first operating environment; and

a second adapter associated with the second worker thread, the second adapter operable to convert the second normalized command to a form compatible with the second operating environment.

17. A method for managing jobs in heterogeneous environments, comprising:

normalizing a command submitted by a user;

executing a first job associated with a first operating environment in response to the normalized command; and

executing a second job associated with a second operating environment in response to the normalized command, wherein the first operating environment and the second operating environment are heterogeneous.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

transmitting the first job to a first job scheduler residing at the first operating environment, the first job scheduler operable to processes the first job; and

transmitting the second job to a second job scheduler residing at the second operating environment, the second job scheduler operable to processes the second job.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein executing the first job and the second job comprises:

invoking a first adapter to convert a first job request to a form compatible with the first operating environment;

invoking a second adapter to convert a second job request to a form compatible with the second operating environment; and

transmitting the converted first job request to the first operating environment and the converted second job request to the second operating environment.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the first adapter resides at the first operating environment and the second adapter resides at the second operating environment.

21. The method of claim 19, the first job request and the second job request comprising identical values and the converted first job request a different value from the converted second job request.

22. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

retrieving a first job status from the first operating environment, the first job status associated with the first job;

retrieving a second job status from the second operating environment, the second job status associated with the second job;

normalizing the first job status and the second job status; and

presenting the normalized first job status and the normalized second job status to a user.

23. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

identifying a filter compatible with a plurality of operating environments including at least the first operating environment and the second operating environment;

comparing the filter to the normalized first job status and to the normalized second job status for determining matches; and

presenting jobs that match the filter to the user.

24. A job manager, comprising:

a connection listener operable to maintain connection threads for communications between the job manager and clients;

a worker pool comprising a pool of worker threads and operable to receive a client request via the connection listener and pass the request to one of the worker threads;

a request controller operable to receive the request from the one of the worker threads and pass the request to a parser manager, the parser manager operable to parse the request into a request object and pass the request object to the handler manager and the handler manager operable to process the request object in order to effectuate the request, generate a response object, and pass the response object to a view controller via the request controller, the view controller operable to process the response object into one of a plurality of views;

a session manager operable to manage sessions assigned to specific clients;

a template manager operable to manage templates utilized by the job manager;

an adapter manager operable to manage adapters associated with different operating environments; and

a profile manager operable to manage objects encapsulating profiles of enterprise elements.