The University of California, Riverside (UCR) is the fastest growing and most ethnically diverse of the 10 campuses of the University of California. As a major research university, UCR offers an exceptional environment for both undergraduate and graduate students interested in a supportive, collegial learning environment with nationally and internationally recognized faculty dedicated to the highest standards in research, teaching and public service.
 
UCR Systems Administrator Bob Ayers recently sat down with ISE to discuss how many of the operations in the Data Center of UCR have been automated using ISE EnterpriseSCHEDULE. Bob has been the primary administrator of the OpenVMS operations for several years and uses EnterpriseSCHEDULE to schedule the majority of database operations including exports and reports, system backups and overall system maintenance.

“One of the beauties of EnterpriseSCHEDULE is that jobs are all timed to perform these tasks. You never have to think about it."

Bob Ayers
University of California, Riverside

Administering a total of about 40 databases, Bob saves massive amounts of time and energy by letting EnterpriseSCHEDULE do many of the tasks he normally would have to do manually. He estimates he runs about 150 jobs a day. These jobs include the exporting of vast amounts of University financial, budgeting and funding data from RDB and Oracle databases. Bob commented, "One of the beauties of EnterpriseSCHEDULE is that jobs are all timed to perform these tasks. You never have to think about it."

Bob recently began working with the EnterpriseSCHEDULE Windows Client Interface connected to his OpenVMS job server. He found the interface to be "very nice" and commented that he liked the "visual elements" that are added to job scheduling. He also likes using the command line interface that he's used to, especially from home where he can quickly fire off a job from a command prompt. "That's the nice thing about it" he noted, "you can use either one".

When asked to describe his overall experiences with EnterpriseSCHEDULE, Bob said that it's "really nice". He said, "its reliability has been a real boon to us". He also found the command line and Windows Client interfaces both "easy to use". Finally he summed up his use of the software with: "It's a great product and it's always reliable".