How to Schedule a Task

Use the New Schedule dialog to schedule tasks to run during times of low business activity. Schedule recurring tasks as needed to maintain routine compliance within your enterprise.

The New Schedule dialog enables you to assign a unique name and description to the task schedule. This information is stored on the Scheduled Tasks page and displays in the Task Results table.

See Scheduled Tasks Page and Task Results Page.

Procedure

  1. Click or mouse over the Monitor tab and select Tasks to open the Tasks page.

  2. Right-click on a task name and select Schedule from the dropdown list to open the New Schedule dialog.

  3. Enter a unique name and description for this schedule task.

Note: Task that run across time zones run at the time scheduled, relative to the time zone in which they are scheduled. For example, a task scheduled to run at 4:00 PDT runs at 1:00 EDT.

  1. Enter the date and time to launch the first execution of this task.

You can enter the date manually, or click the [...] icon to select a date from the calendar.

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Select the Run Nowfield to schedule the task to run immediately after clicking Schedule. For recurring tasks, the task runs at the current time at the specified Execution Frequency.

  1. Specify how often this task should run with the Execution Frequency drop-down list. Subsequent executions of this task occur at the time specified in the First Execution fields.
  1. Click Schedule to save this scheduled task. You can go to the Schedule Tasks page to view a list of all scheduled tasks. See Scheduled Tasks Page.