Manage recurring jobs

Cloud Management Platform (CMP) ships with a set of built-in recurring jobs. Any that you or another administrator create appear alongside them.

View recurring jobs

1. Go to Admin > Recurring Jobs.

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   The Next Run column shows when each job runs next, or Disabled if the job is switched off. The toggle in the Actions column enables or disables a job.

2. Select a job name to open its details, including its execution history.

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Edit a recurring job

1. Go to Admin > Recurring Jobs.

2. Select the Edit icon next to a recurring job.

3. Update the Name, Description, and Schedule as required.

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4. Select Save changes.

Schedule format

The Schedule field offers two ways to set a schedule without writing cron. Simple gives you a Frequency list covering the common cases: every 5, 15, or 30 minutes, hourly, every 2, 3, 6, or 12 hours, daily, weekdays, weekly, and monthly, with time and day selectors where they apply. Advanced builds a schedule from every N minutes or hours, or from a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly pattern. Both write a cron expression into the field, and you can type one there yourself instead.

A job whose current expression cannot be represented in Simple opens in Advanced, and one that neither mode can build is left untouched and marked Custom (see Advanced).

Schedule takes a cron expression of five space-separated fields:

These special characters are permitted:

• Asterisk (*). Every value. * in the third field means every day of the month.
• Comma (,). A list of values. 1,5 in the second field means 1 AM and 5 AM.
• Hyphen (-). A range. 0-2 in the fifth field means Sunday through Tuesday.
• Slash (/). A step value. */5 in the first field means every five minutes.

For example, 30 2 * * 1 runs the job at 2:30 AM every Monday.