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Title
When I set my schedule time for a Script for an interval over an hour, it runs once an hour. -
Description
In Scripting you can set how often the script runs under Schedule.
It can be set as XX minutes or XX hours.
If you set the value of minutes over 59, however it will NOT run at that interval and Will run once an hour.
Hour is also limited to a maximum setting of 23.
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Cause
If you set the value of minutes over 59, however it will NOT run at that interval and Will run once an hour. Hour is also limited to a maximum setting of 23.
This is working as designed.
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Resolution
The Kace SMA uses the native Cron scheduler to schedule tasks. Cron accepts these numbers from specific fields -
This is listed as "Custom Schedule" on different sections of the Kace SMA Admin Guide.
Use standard 5-field cron format (extended cron format is not supported):
* * * * *
| | | | |─ day of the week (0-6)(Sunday=0)
| | | |───── month (1-12)
| | |───────── day of the month (1-31)
| |───────────── hour (0-23)
|───────────────── minute (0-59)
As can be seen, valid entries for minutes is 0-59. Any value added over 59 will be set to the highest available number - 59. As the input is 0-59, 59 is actually 60 minutes and will run once an hour.
Although the Kace SMA does not give an error when an invalid entry is made, it is dependant on the native Cron and will follow its format.
Cron in FreeBSD (the OS the Kace SMA runs on) information can also be found here -
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=crontab&sektion=5
field allowed values
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minute 0-59
hour 0-23
day of month 1-31
month 1-12 (or names, see below)
day of week 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names)