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Super Watchdog: open source Event-action task scheduler for all application job scheduling

Super Watchdog is an event-action task scheduler for all application job scheduling and event monitoring.

Super Watchdog is the twin software of Super Scheduler, which is timer-action job scheduler.

Super Watchdog is entirely written in Java.

In this document, the term trigger and event are interchangeable. The same is true for task and chore.

SuperWatchdog (one ward name) is the program name of Super Watchdog.

Main Features

It fully supports distributed computing environment. You can use Super Watchdog on any machine in the network at any time. Many instances of Super Watchdog can run at the same time while a task will be triggered once and only once at the trigger time. All instances of Super Watchdog share up-to-date information automatically and promptly (default is two seconds).
It fails-over. If any instance of Super Scheduler is down or busy, others will pick up the slack.
It is scalable: if one instance of Super Watchdog is too busy, you can always add another machine to run another instance of Super Watchdog. All instances of Super Watchdog load-balance themselves in a natural way.
It supports many types jobs. It also supports composite jobs and retry jobs as well.
It supports many types of triggers: File timestamp and User defined triggers.
It has a built-in GUI tool for managing and monitoring tasks. Monitoring windows refresh themselves automatically and promptly. It allows you to suspend tasks, reactive tasks and run tasks immediately.
It logs major task related events. It provides history facilities.
It supports a running period for all tasks.
A task runs on a desired machine if specified.
All tasks can be programmatically controlled by simple Java API or any other program (like C/C++).
It provides a lightweight daemon for non graphic environment.

Super supports all the standard SQL 92 entry level databases, it has been tested on the following databases:

Super is platform neutral. it has been tested on the following platforms:

See Overview and Tour for more information.

Internationalization

See Internationalization here.

License

Download

Super Watchdog is part of Super. Download from web page of Super.