To use SchedulerX for task scheduling, management, monitoring, and alerting, you must first activate the product. This topic describes how to activate SchedulerX in the Microservices Engine (MSE) console.
Steps
Go to the MSE instance creation page.
If you have not activated the MSE cluster hosting service:
On the MSE product page, click Buy Now to go to the MSE instance purchase page.
Select the Task Scheduling tab.
If you have activated the MSE cluster hosting service:
Log on to the MSE console.
Select an engine type:
In the navigation pane on the left, choose and click Buy Now to go to the MSE instance purchase page.
In the navigation pane on the left, choose and click Create Instance to go to the MSE instance purchase page.
Select a product type. MSE SchedulerX supports the following product types:
XXL-JOB Edition (Subscription): The subscription billing method requires you to pay for resources before you use them. Purchasing a subscription instance lets you reserve resources in advance and benefit from lower prices. For more information, see Billing of XXL-JOB Edition instances.
XXL-JOB Edition (Pay-as-you-go): You are charged based on your actual usage of billable items. You can use resources before paying for them. This billing method is suitable for scenarios where business usage frequently changes. For more information, see Billing of XXL-JOB Edition instances.
SchedulerX (Pay-as-you-go): This billing method applies to all instance tasks. For the Basic Edition, you are charged based on task hosting Compute Units (CUs). For the Professional Edition, you are charged based on the sum of task hosting CUs and task scheduling CUs. For more information, see Billing of SchedulerX Edition instances.
On the Confirm Order page, click Pay.
On the payment page, click Purchase.
References
To learn how to connect a client to SchedulerX, see Quickly connect a client to SchedulerX.
To get started with the features of SchedulerX, see Execute a scheduled task for a Shell script on a specified host.