The Novell® ZENworks Orchestrator Job Development Guide is a component of the Novell ZENworks Orchestrator documentation library. While Orchestrator provides the broad framework and networking tools to manage complex virtual machines and high performance computing resources in a datacenter, this guide explains how to develop grid application jobs and polices that form the basis of Orchestrator functionality. This guide provides developer information to create and run custom Orchestrator jobs. It also helps provides the basis to build, debug, and maintain policies using Orchestrator.
This guide contains the following sections:
This guide is intended for use by application developers and technically advanced datacenter technicians assigned to write Job Description Language (JDL) jobs to manage all resources in a Orchestrator-enabled environment. It assumes that users have the following background:
Thorough understanding of concepts related to Novell ZENworks Orchestrator.
Experience with the Python programming language.
General understanding of network, operating environments, and systems architecture.
Knowledge of basic UNIX* shell commands, Windows* command line tools, and text editors.
An understanding of parallel computing and applications running on grid network infrastructures.
For the most recent version of this Installation and Getting Started Guide, visit the ZENworks Orchestrator 1.3 Web site.
For additional documentation that might assist you in developing Orchestrator jobs, see the following guides:
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