vRO's scheduling ability is very poor and we tend to use this very heavily. Are other folks using some third-party scheduling software to run normal daily tasks with vRO?
A few of my main gripes:
- After some amount of time the scheduler stops actually running the workflow (under general tab, last/next run are updated, but no workflow was actually run under workflow runs)
- Sometimes the scheduler silently fails to kick the task off
- In cluster mode, both nodes of a cluster sometimes kick off the same workflow at the same time (a personal favorite to clean up @ 2AM)
- If I want to update parameters, I have to delete and create a new job
- If I want to change the backing workflow, i have to delete and create a new job
- Visualizing or even querying the schedule is impossible from vRO. Excel is the only way. Joy
- Jobs run under a service account require that anyone wanting to view the run info (such as a NOC) have full vRO admin rights
In general the scheduling ability is nearly unusable and I simply don't trust it anymore (and yes, I have SRs open for most of these issues, however no progress is being made)
