Transparent networking facilities provide for scheduled jobs and control variables to be shared across any number of hosts with central point or distributed control. Xi-Batch provides comprehensive security, user chargeback and user access control mechanisms.

Key Benefits

• Availability on any Unix or Linux platform
• Job priorities
• Event driven for high performance
• File monitoring (for creation, deletion or changes to files)
• Unlimited number of jobs and dependencies
• Character and Command Line Interfaces
• Database independence
• MS Windows and X-Windows GUI Interfaces
• Job statuses displayed in user-selectable colors
• Web Browser interface
• Programmer's API Interface
• Transparent networking
• A dynamic, interactive queue manager
• Reporting
• Dependency scheduling
• Full audit trail
• Time and date based scheduling
• On-line context sensitive help
• Multiple job queues
• Interfaces to third party applications
• Load balancing
• Seamlessly integrates into grid computing systems (click for more information)
• Optional agent for execution of jobs on Windows NT/XP/2000 (click for more information)