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Creating an execute schedule

Use the Edge Services portal to create an execute schedule for your tasks and workflows. After you create an execute schedule, create a job to automate task and workflow execution using your schedule. Use CRON expressions (CRON jobs) to create an execute schedule to run your repetitive commands.

CRON expressions are an accurate and flexible solution for automating and scheduling tasks and workflows.

CRON expressions are represented as:

Minute Hour Day of month Month Day of week
0-59 0-23 1-31 1-12 1-7; where 1=Sunday

For example, to automate a job on the following schedule: 3:00 pm, on the 10th day of the month, March through May, the CRON expression would be:
0 15 10 3-5 ?

Note: Library tab functionality is only available for AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Azure cloud providers.

To create an execute schedule:

  1. Click Library, click Automation, then click Execute Scheduling.

    The Edge Services portal shows the execute schedules created for your organization.
Edge Service Manager execute schedule list view
  1. Click +Add.

    The Edge Services portal shows the Create Execution Schedule window.
Create Execution Schedule window
  1. In the Create Execute Schedule window, complete the following fields:
Field Description
NAME Type a unique name for the execute schedule.
DESCRIPTION Type a description for the execute schedule.
TIME ZONE Select the time zone for the execute schedule.
ENABLED
  • To enable the schedule, select this checkbox. 
  • To disable all associated executions and remove the schedule as a future job selection, clear this checkbox.
SCHEDULE

Type the CRON expression values to create an execute schedule.
 

To update the schedule by text value, click the highlighted values and select a different value. The CRON expression is translated into text values under the field. 
  1. Click SAVE.

    The Edge Services portal creates the execute schedule.

    Next, create a task job to apply the execute schedule to a task.