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Administration and Configuration Guide
About Schedules
A schedule is a calendar entry. A schedule consists of one or more schedule items. Each
schedule item is effectively a sub-schedule: it includes a start date (and can include an
end date), a time range during which it runs, a recurrence pattern (once, periodically,
daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly), and range of recurrence.
You use schedules to set effective periods and blackout periods for rules and agents. For
more information, see Chapter 6, “Associating Rules with Schedules” on page 299 and
Chapter 5, “Assigning Blackouts to Agent Instances” on page 179. Additionally, you
can create schedule-driven derived metrics and configure the values for registry
variables to change at certain times based on schedules. See Chapter 7, “Triggering
derived metrics” on page 348 and Chapter 6, “Using performance calendars” on
page 204 for more information.
If a schedule only includes one schedule item, then that item is the schedule. If a
schedule includes multiple schedule items, then they collectively form the schedule. For
example, if you wanted a schedule to run indefinitely from 10:00 am to 11:00 am daily
and on the first day of the month from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm, but also every Saturday from
11:00 am to 4:00 pm in May, add a schedule item for each of these time spans to the
schedule.
You can create new schedules and manage the existing ones using the dashboards that
come with the Administration module. For complete information, see the following
sections:
•“Managing Schedules” on page 397
•“Creating Schedules” on page 407
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