How to schedule a daily repeating job to not run on Sunday 6am - 12pm

[jeff.hamway01]

Hello Everyone,

I'm having some logic challenges when setting up a daily repeating job that runs every 15 minutes to not run on Sunday between 6am - 12pm. 

Environment: TIdal 6.0.3/ Windows

My first thought was to create 2 Variables:

Tidal_Maintenence_StartTime, string 05:30:00:000

Tidal_Maintenance_EndTime, String, 12:00:00:000

Then create 2 action variables
Stop Job launching using Variable: Tidal_Maintenence_StartTime, value False

Start job launching using Variable: Tidal_Maintenance_EndTime, value True

I don't think I have the logic down to continue. I thought I would jus share my thoughts and see if someone could help me build a good foundation logic and assist with tasks. thanks in advance. 

Jeff

[Dinesh Sankaranarayanan]

Have you reviewed this thread ?

https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/13066886/how-place-all-tidal-jobs-maintenance-mode-during-maintenance-activities

[jeff.hamway01]

Thank you for the reply Dinesh.  We currently have some jobs already scheduled.  What I wanted to accomplish is to modify the scheduling behavior of  jobs already in production. 

I was thinking that if we create jobs so they don't run during that timeframe, We wont have to worry about job issues as we grow.  So in the future, no jobs will be scheduled during the maintenance timeframe.

[Cale Montgomery]

Hi, Jeff.  I'm new to Tidal, but I'd like to offer a suggestion (which hopefully won't come off as naive).

Have you considered creating a dependency on a global "May_This_Job_Run" variable?  Create a job which sets that variable to False at 6:00am Sunday, and then back to True at 12:00pm.

This will lock the daily repeating job in a Waiting on Dependency state during the down time.  Setting the "If job is currently running" option to 'skip' should prevent any new occurrences from launching during that time frame.

Once the "May_This_Job_Run" variable is set to True, the held occurrence should run and allow scheduling to resume as normal...

[jeff.hamway01]

Hello Cale,

Thanks for the tip.  Check out my results above.

[jeff.hamway01]

Thanks for sharing your ideas.  I'll be trying to test this within the week.  hopefully I can get this rolling.

[jeff.hamway01]

Here is my end result which seemed to work.  If you have a better plan, please let me know:

Issue: Need to move all currently repeating jobs out of the Sunday 6am - 12pm schedule but then let them run after Sunday 12pm.

Here is what I did:

• Create Boolean logic variable that switches from True to False

• Create 2 Variable Actions. One that stops job launching and one that starts job launching

• Each action will switch the Boolean logic from True to False then False to True

• Create 2 Job events that will then associate to the 2 actions that were created

• Create 2 Tidal Jobs. One that starts at 5:30am that includes the Event to stop job launching and the second job that runs at 12pm to continue job launching for the specified job

• Update the dependency of the jobs that run during the maintenance window to make sure that the variable ‘Tidal Maintenance Window’ variable is FALSE. If TRUE, do not run.