Tutorial Overview

What You Will Learn

This tutorial has eight lessons that provide information about SmartBatch, step-by-step procedures, and graphics.

Note:  An overview of the SmartBatch product is available at:
 http://www.onlinetoolworks.com/help/overview/overview.htm

•Lesson 1 is intended to get you familiar with the SmartBatch environment, the main components and how they interact.  

•Lesson 2 gets you up and running with a simple Schedule and Operation.  It simply sets up a Schedule and an Operation. The Operation will be run at its scheduled time by the Executive Server (ES).

•Lesson 3 goes into some more detail about Scheduling options and exception dates.  

•Lesson 4 discuss the Notification setup so that you can start using Paging or Email notification.  

•Lesson 5 and 6 teaches you about Parameters and Dependencies, what they are and how they are used with SmartBatch.  

•Lesson 7 goes into the detail of how to setup Operations Steps, and  Jobs for more complex batch processing needs.  It provides an example of how to update a Web site’s HTML files on a weekly basis.  

•Lesson 8  provides an overview of the Status and History capabilities, how to view the different types of History entries, how to determine what is on the Executive Server’s list of objects and finally how to resubmit or delete an object on the Status window.

When you have finished these lessons, you will be able to do the following tasks:

•Use the SmartBatch Administrator

•Configure Operations, Steps and Jobs

•Configure Parameters

•Configure Dependencies

•Configure Operators

•Configure Alerts

•Setup Notification

•Assign Operators to Alert Lists

•Assign Parameters to Parameter Lists

•Assign Operations to Jobs

•Assign Schedules and Parameters to Operations and Jobs

•Assign Alerts to Operations

•Resubmit an object to the Executive Server

•Delete an object from the Executive Servers List

•Check Status

•View the History