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Organizing the IT department maintenance jobs — the Ex-ITMaintenance application
Organizing the IT department maintenance
jobs — the Ex-ITMaintenance application
The IT department runs a number of maintenance jobs of different types, that are
collectively organized into the Ex-ITMaintenance application. Most of the jobs in the
sample draft perform tasks that must be performed in extreme emergencies (fire,
floods, tornado watch, and so on). The draft also contains a job for routine,
non-emergency backups.
During an extreme emergency, it is imperative that emergency procedures be
immediately implemented to get employees to safety, get the system backed up, and
to shut down CONTROL-M components. The sequencing of these jobs is important,
and this, in turn, affects the groupings of these jobs.
Jobs in this application fall into the following groups:
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jobs to perform backup, in both non-emergency and emergency situations—
Ex-Backups
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jobs to initiate emergency procedures in an extreme emergency—
Ex-EmergencyProc
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job to shut down CONTROL-M components after the emergency procedures have
been implemented—Ex-ComponentStopping
Handling IT job backup needs
The Ex-Backup group contains two jobs, one that performs a standard backup of
company data under normal circumstances, and another that performs a full backup
in an extreme emergency.
Defining a standard backup job
The Backup job executes an operating system command (“copy”) to back up certain
files from a directory to one of two tape drives. It should be scheduled every day.
Defining an operating system command job, and other general information
about the job
The General tab defines the following:
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The Tasktype is Command.
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