Viewing and Editing a snapshot jobSchedule

You can edit a snapshot specification schedule after you have created (or edited) and saved it.

To edit a scheduled snapshot specification:

  1. In the navigation pane, select Jobs and Sessions.
  2. Select Recurring Schedules.
  3. From the drop-down list, select Create Snapshot. The list shows all scheduled snapshot specification jobs.
  4. To view a scheduled snapshot specification, double-click one.
  5. Select the Schedule object in the Views pane.
  6. To edit the snapshot specification job schedule, modify the following parameters:
    • Schedule: Choose to run the snapshot specification immediately, or on a recurring schedule. Choose to run it once, daily, weekly, monthly, or on a custom schedule. Parameters include:
    • None: No schedule will be set. To run the snapshot specification, select the snapshot specification, right-click, and select Run snapshot specification.
    • Daily: Choose to run the snapshot job on a daily basis.
    • Weekly: Choose the day of the week you want the snapshot job to run.
    • Monthly: Choose the months to run snapshot specification job.
    • Custom: In the Custom Crontab string field, enter a string the indicates a time schedule.

      A crontab file has five fields for specifying the day of the week, the month, the day of the month, the hour, and the minute. The following diagram shows each position in the crontab file, what the position corresponds to, and the allowed values:


      The crontab string can include serial (1,2,3,4) and range (1-5) values. Only some operating systems support the minutes format /2 or /10 for running the audit every 2 minutes or 10 minutes. An asterisk (*) denotes all values for that field, such as all months of the year. Days can be specified in two fields: month day and week day. If both days are specified, both of the values will be executed. All operating systems support comma-separated values within each field. For example:
      5,10 0 10 * 1 means run an audit 12.05 and 12.10 AM every month or on the 10th and on every Monday.

      For more information about crontab entry formats, consult the UNIX man pages.
    • Time and Duration: For each type of schedule, specify the hour and minute, the day of the week (and month) you want the daily schedule to start. Unless you specify an end time, the snapshot specification job will keep running indefinitely. To choose a date to end the snapshot specification job schedule, select End and then choose a date. The Time Zone is set according to the time zone set in your user profile.
    • (Optional) Deselect the End option if you want the snapshot specification schedule to run indefinitely.
  7. To save the snapshot specification schedule, from the File menu select Save. The snapshot job will now run according to the defined schedule.