Can I rename the oozie job name dynamically

Question

We have a Hadoop service in which we have multiple applications. We need to process the data for each of the applications by reexecuting the same workflow. These are scheduled to execute at the same time of the day. The issue is that when these jobs are running its hard to know for which application the job is running/failed/succeeded. Ofcourse, I can open the job coonfiguration and know it but that does take time since there are 10s of applications running under that service.

Is there any option in oozie to dynamically pass the name of the workflow (or part of it) when executing the job such as

oozie job -run -config <filename> -name "<NameIWishToGive>"
OR
oozie job -run -config <filename> -nameSuffix "<MyApplicationNameUnderTheService>"

Also, we dont wish to create multiple job folders to execute separately as that would be too much of copy paste.

Please suggest.

Answer 1

It looks to me like you should be able to just use properties set in the job config.

I was able to get a dynamic name by doing the following.

Here's an example of my workflow.xml:

<workflow-app xmlns="uri:oozie:workflow:0.2" name="map-reduce-wf-${environment}">
...
</workflow-app>

And in my job.properties I had:

...
environment=test
...

The name ended up being: "map-reduce-wf-test"

Answer 2

you will find a whole bunch of oozie command lines here in the apache docs. i'm not sure which one exactly you are looking for so i thought i'd just paste the link. hope this helps!