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Version: 3.3

Editing Configuration Schedules

Integration Manager supports both Interval and Cron expression scheduling. The powerful Quartz scheduler engine is used to manage scheduling and schedule triggers.

To set a schedule for running a configuration:

  1. Select the Configurations tab.

  2. Click the name of the configuration you want to schedule.

  3. On the Configuration Details page, click the Edit icon in the Scheduling field:

  4. The Edit Configuration Schedule page is displayed.

  5. Select a frequency from the dropdown menu:

    • On Demand – Unscheduled; the configuration must be run manually. See Running a Configuration Manually.
    • Interval – Scheduled to run every x hours and x minutes. Note that the shortest interval is 1 minute.
    • Daily – Scheduled to run every x days at a specified time.
    • Weekly – Scheduled to run every week at a specified time on a specific day.
    • Monthly – Scheduled to run every month on a specific day every x months at a specified time.
    • Custom – Scheduled to run as per the specified schedule frequency.
    • Custom CRON Expression – Scheduled by a Quartz CRON expression. Refer to Cron Expression Scheduling.

  6. Enter the settings for the chosen schedule type.

  7. Click Save Schedule.

    The scheduling is updated on the Configuration Details page.

Cron Expression Scheduling​

Cron expression scheduling is a much more powerful and flexible scheduling mechanism. It uses a special syntax to specify the exact second, minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week, and/or year that a schedule will fire.

A simple example is a cron expression representing a schedule that will run at 1:25 p.m. on the first day of each month:

0 25 13 1 * ? *

Integration Manager Job Scheduling

It takes a little bit of practice, but cron can come in very handy to customize exactly when your integration jobs will run. A quick cron expression tutorial and cheat sheet provided by Quartz can be found here: http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/documentation/quartz-2.3.0/tutorials/crontrigger.html

Note that cron scheduling in increments of less than 1 minute is disabled by default. You can enable increments down to the second by adding the following entry to your application.properties file (requires Integration Manager restart):

org.quartz.ext.allow-seconds=true