User`s guide

Section 2, Task 4: Set Up Your Production Job
This task walks you through setting up and scheduling the batch or background job that will automatically process, reduce, and
report on your site’s data.
Prerequisites
1. You understand how to use the job scheduling system at your site.
Refer to the documentation for your task scheduler for more information.
2. You understand the macros for return code checking.
See the Macro Reference documentation for more information on return code checking.
3. You have IT Service Vision prototypes and your collector’s prototypes for the production job.
The prerequisite files for moving your PDB into production status are:
a. the shell script prototypes that IT Service Vision supplies.
There are examples of batch processing scripts for your IT Service Vision PDB in the IT Service Vision
Showroom. These scripts automate the logging of data from your collector as well as the processing of and
reporting on the data.
There are complete instructions in the Showroom for automating the logging, processing, and reporting on data
from the following collectors:
There are simple examples of batch processing scripts that automate the logging of data from the following
collectors in the IT Service Vision Showroom
Script Examples.
There is also an example script that automates the running of these scripts on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis in
the IT Service Vision Showroom
Script Examples
.
To create batch scripts that automate the logging of data from other collectors, see your collector vendor’s
documentation.