Trigger support for a bi-directional broker

• US 7,757,235 B2
• Filed: 07/12/2004
• Issued: 07/13/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Computer Associates Think Inc. (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Computer Associates Think Inc. (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Minchenko, Nick, Davis, Bradford C.
• Primary Examiner(s): An; Meng-Ai
• Assistant Examiner(s): ARCOS, CAROLINE H
• Application Number:
  US10/890,312
• Publication Number:
  US 20050010923A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,192 Days
• Field of Search: 718/102, 718/100, 718/104, 719/318, 719/328, 709/202, 709/203, 709/318
• US Class Current: 718/102
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/544 Remote
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/546 Xcast
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/485 Task life-cycle, e.g. stopping, restarting, resuming execution G06F9/4881 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A trigger support system and method for a bi-directional job broker is provided. One or more action requests, or triggers, are registered, for example, by a manager job scheduler or a broker. The one or more action requests are associated with one or more jobs scheduled to run on a client job scheduler. A broker communicates the one or more action requests to the client job scheduler. The client job scheduler takes an action based on the one or more action requests and reports the result of the action to the manager job scheduler.

Claims

1. A trigger support system, comprising:

a processor configured to execute processes of a manager job scheduler, the manager job scheduler being operable to register one or more action requests with a client job scheduler, the one or more action requests associated with one or more existing jobs scheduled on the client job scheduler, each of the one or more existing jobs scheduled independently of the manager job scheduler and comprising a respective job definition comprising job run conditions, and wherein the one or more action requests include one or more requests for statuses of one or more jobs running on the client job scheduler;

a broker enabled to receive the one or more action requests registered by the manager job scheduler;

the broker further enabled to send the one or more action requests to the client job scheduler; and

the client job scheduler operable to receive the one or more action requests from the broker, the client job scheduler further operable, after one of the one or more existing jobs begins to run according to its respective job definition, to take an action based on the one or more action requests and report a result of the action to the manager job scheduler.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the client job scheduler reports the result of the action to the manager job scheduler via the broker.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the broker is further enabled to convert the one or more action requests into one or more events and transmit the one or more events to the client job scheduler.

4. A trigger support system, comprising:

a manager job scheduler;

a processor configured to execute processes of a broker, the broker being operable to interrogate the manager job scheduler to register one or more action requests with a client job scheduler, the one or more action requests associated with one or more existing jobs scheduled on the client job scheduler, each of the one or more existing jobs scheduled independently of the manager job scheduler and comprising a respective job definition comprising job run conditions, and wherein the one or more action requests include one or more requests for statuses of one or more jobs running on the client job scheduler; and

the client job scheduler operable to receive the one or more action requests from the broker, the client job scheduler further operable, after one of the one or more existing jobs begins to run according to its respective job definition, to take an action based on the one or more action requests and report a result of the action to the manager job scheduler.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the client job scheduler reports the result of the action to the manager job scheduler via the broker.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the broker is further operable to convert the one or more action requests into one more events and transmit the one or more events to the client job scheduler.

7. A trigger support method, comprising:

registering one or more action requests with a client job scheduler, wherein the one or more action requests include one or more requests for statuses of one or more jobs running on the client job scheduler;

transmitting the one or more registered action requests from a manager job scheduler to the client job scheduler via a broker;

converting the one or more registered action requests, using the broker, into one or more events in the client job scheduler, the one or more events associated with an existing job scheduled on the client job scheduler, the existing job scheduled independently of the manager job scheduler and comprising a job definition comprising job run conditions; and

after the existing job begins to run according to its job definition, taking an action based on the one or more action requests and sending, from the client job scheduler to the manager job scheduler, one or more messages associated with the one or more events as a result of the job being run.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the broker registers the one or more action requests.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein a manager job scheduler registers the one or more action requests.

10. The method of claim 7, further including converting the message into a manager job scheduler format.

11. A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a trigger support method, comprising:

registering one or more action requests with a client job scheduler, wherein the one or more action requests include one or more requests for statuses of one or more jobs running on the client job scheduler;

transmitting the one or more registered action requests from a manager job scheduler to the client job scheduler via a broker;

converting the one or more registered action requests, using the broker, into one or more events in the client job scheduler, the one or more events associated with an existing job scheduled on the client job scheduler, the existing job scheduled independently of the manager job scheduler and comprising a job definition comprising job run conditions; and

after the existing job begins to run according to its job definition, taking an action based on the one or more action requests and sending, from the client job scheduler to the manager job scheduler, one or more messages associated with the one or more events as a result of the job being run.

12. The program storage device claim 11, wherein the broker registers the one or more action requests.

13. The program storage device claim 11, wherein a manager job scheduler registers the one or more action requests.

14. The program storage device claim 11, further including converting the message into a manager job scheduler format.