JADE - JobScheduler Advanced Data Exchange - Benefits

Summary

• Implementation: File transfer with FTP/SFTP/FTPS, error recognition and error handling

• Logging: compliant logging, file transfer history, automated alerting

• Web GUI, Reporting: GUI for readily available information, automatic report creation

Details Implementation

Requirements

• The implementation with individual file transfer shell scripts is quite often platform-dependent and error-prone, this means most of the time there is no sufficient proof that a file transfer has definitely been successful.

• In most cases there is no error handling, e.g. no repeating of the file transfer in case of failure.

• Implementing with individual shell scripts means that it is required for the configuration to be organised individually. The change of a protocol, e.g. from FTP to SFTP requires a new implementation each time.

Benefits

• Using a platform independent implementation (Java) for all platforms with no additional requirement for the installation.

• Error recognition and error handling.

• Support of protocols FTP, FTP/S, SFTP (public / private key).

• Batch processing via command line and configuration file.

Details Logging

Requirements

• Protocols are not standardised.

• Protocol files are not intuitively understood.

• Protocols of shell scripts do not show an error status explicitly.

Benefits

• Protocols are standardized with a structured and configurable format.

• A file transfer history for all transfers is created and optionally stored in a central file transfer history in text files or databases.

• Automatic alerting system in case of errors.

Details Reporting

Requirements

• No information about received or sent files is centrally available.

• No analysis is possible concerning the error occurrence of transfers that have been undertaken with shell scripts.

• No compliant reporting is available, e.g. a daily or weekly report that shows frequency and time of the transferred files.

Benefits

• A centrally available GUI is used in order to monitor and to analyse the file transfers. The Web GUI allows searching the complete file transfer history.

• Automatic generation and mailing of file transfer history reports, configurable KPI-Reports.

• Individual reports can be created with a standard report generator by querying the transfer history database.