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 Product Information
Overview
Enterprise Edition
Standard and Lite Edition Features
Remote Agent
SmartAppLets
Pricing
 Enterprise Edition Features
 
Scalability,
Distributed Processing,
Load-balancing and
Fault-tolerance		 The Enterprise Edition allows Operations (an Operation is any script or program you want to run), Steps, and Jobs to be scheduled and executed on any Windows computer in your network centrally controlled from one Executive Server.  Each Operation can specify the name of the computer or name of a Computer Group where the Operation should execute.  When the Executive Server processes the Operation, it contacts the specified computer and send the request to that computer.  If a Computer Group is specified, the Executive Server will determine which computer or computers should process the Operation.  The SmartBatch Remote Agent is sent the request to process the Operation via a message queue.  The Remote Agent monitors the Operation for completion and notifies the Executive Server indicating the success or failure.  If either the Executive Server or Remote Agent becomes unavailable after the request has been sent to the message queue, the request will be processed when the computer becomes available.
 
Diagram Views Sophisticated environments need sophisticated tools to help manage the relations amongst objects.  A Diagram View of your object makes it easier to configure and manage the simplest to the most complex environments.  The ability to display a Diagram View of Operations, Steps and Jobs along with their associated objects is provided.  In addition the ability to create a Diagram View of File Watch, File Existence and Object-To-Object dependencies is included.
 
Application Groups Application Groups provide a way to separate processing into a named group.  This provides for better manageability of your processing especially in large configurations where the number of objects can be in the hundreds or thousands.
 
Computer Groups A Computer Group is a set of computers that are assigned a type.  Three types of Computer Groups are available that help distribute processing in different ways.  Each computer in a Computer Group must have a SmartBatch Remote Agent installed.  The Executive Server will send requests to computer in a Computer Group based on the Computer Group type, processing resources of the computers and availability of the computer.  If a computer in a Round Robin or Application Grid Computer Group is not available another available computer in the Computer Group will be selected.  The All computer Group provides the ability to setup an Operation one time and have it execute on many computers simultaneously.
 
 Support for Major Database Products While SmartBatch is not dependent on a specific database product, the Enterprise Edition allows the SmartBatch database to be placed on SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 and MySQL.  The Standard Edition can use the desktop version (Express Editions of these database products). 
 
Custom Programmatic Interface The Enterprise Edition also offers an extensible .NET API that will enable users to extend the processing of the Executive Server.  For example, status messages can be sent to network management systems such as Computer Associates' Unicenter or IBM's Tivoli.