Third party scheduling software for vRO?

[jarushepic]

vRO's scheduling ability is very poor and we tend to use this very heavily.  Are other folks using some third-party scheduling software to run normal daily tasks with vRO?

A few of my main gripes:

• After some amount of time the scheduler stops actually running the workflow (under general tab, last/next run are updated, but no workflow was actually run under workflow runs)
• Sometimes the scheduler silently fails to kick the task off
• In cluster mode, both nodes of a cluster sometimes kick off the same workflow at the same time (a personal favorite to clean up @ 2AM)
• If I want to update parameters, I have to delete and create a new job
• If I want to change the backing workflow, i have to delete and create a new job
• Visualizing or even querying the schedule is impossible from vRO.  Excel is the only way. Joy
• Jobs run under a service account require that anyone wanting to view the run info (such as a NOC) have full vRO admin rights

In general the scheduling ability is nearly unusable and I simply don't trust it anymore (and yes, I have SRs open for most of these issues, however no progress is being made)

[iiliev]

I agree that scheduling could be improved a lot; it's one of the features that has seen almost no improvements since initial implementation.

As for third-party scheduling solutions - I'm not aware of anything significantly better than integrated vRO scheduler.

BTW, could you send me the list with opened SRs/PRs? We may consider them when planning work for vRO 7.3 and following releases (but don't have high hopes).

[drummoau]

We have run into all the same issues. We have currently moved our scheduled workflows to cron jobs on one of the clustered vRO nodes, calling the workflow via REST.