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Managing Crons

Not a nightmare anymore .. What is Cron ? Cron is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems. People who set up and maintain software environments use cron to schedule jobs (commands or shell scripts) to run periodically at fixed times, dates, or intervals. With increasing servers, applications, crons (schedule jobs) it was becoming pain to manage and monitor all crons. We thus built NCConfig – a tool to monitor all crons which includes their status - Success/Failure, executing time, output, etc Few major problems which we used to face before building... Read More