Hi Guys

I have a requirement to plan about an OOB Timer job in SharePoint 2013. 

Purpose - This is going to pull all the data, based on some criteria and going to generate an XML file to a predefined location, in a periodic manner.

Challenge - I need to plan about the exceptions of the Timer job, and various erroneous situations, for this  job. This is a part of my solutioning. 

Could you please suggest, how should I plan for this Timer Job. 

N.B. No scope of VS code deployment.

Thanks for your attention and inputs in advance.

Reagards

Preetam Sarkar

Hi Preetam,            

In SharePoint, we can monitor the status of timer job in Central Administration site, it provides a convenient way to manage timer job for users:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee748599.aspx

In PowerShell way:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bettertogether/archive/2012/09/19/getting-and-analyzing-timer-job-history.aspx

In the life cycle of this timer job, for dealing with each special exception or erroneous situation, a suggestion is that you can handle them in the code behind based on the actual situations(such as pulling data from SharePoint, generating XML file, accessing local drive etc.), as well as outputting custom logs for further troubleshooting.

Feel free to reply if there any other suggestion about how to plan this timer job in a better way.