# Manage recurring jobs

> Review the recurring jobs on your instance, check their run history, and adjust their run schedules

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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**.

   ![The Recurring Jobs page.](/img/cmp/use/orchestration/recurring-jobs/manage/recurring-jobs.png)

   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.

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

   ![Screenshot of a recurring job.](/img/cmp/use/orchestration/recurring-jobs/manage/recurring-job.png)

## Edit a recurring job

1. Go to **Admin** > **Recurring Jobs**.
1. Select the **Edit** icon next to a recurring job.
1. Update the **Name**, **Description**, and **Schedule** as required.

   ![Screenshot of the Edit Recurring Job form.](/img/cmp/use/orchestration/recurring-jobs/manage/edit-recurring-job.png)

1. 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:

| Position | Field | Values |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Minute | `0`–`59` |
| 2 | Hour | `0`–`23` |
| 3 | Day of month | `1`–`31` |
| 4 | Month | `1`–`12` |
| 5 | Day of week | `0`–`6`, beginning Sunday |

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.

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Schedules are read in the time zone set on the CMP appliance, which is UTC unless it has been changed. The **Next Run** column uses the same clock, so it always shows the time the job will actually run. See [Explore features](/docs/cmp/get-started/explore-features/) for how to change the appliance time zone.
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## Related

- [Built-in recurring jobs](/docs/cmp/use/orchestration/recurring-jobs/built-in/): what each job that ships with CMP does.
- [Create recurring jobs](/docs/cmp/use/orchestration/recurring-jobs/create/): add a recurring job of your own.