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Eugene_C
8 years ago

Run DataSource at specified time or only during specified time window

Hello, It'd be really great to be able to run datasources by scheduler (Collect every). For example, at 3 am every day or 2 pm every Monday.  I'm aware of pollinginterval but even if i ...
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pmeyer
8 years ago

I also have scenarios where I would like to schedule a datasource to only run at a certain time of the day - maybe like Windows Task Scheduler. 

Example - Pulling disk defgrag reports overnight.  With large volumes, this may take a while to execute.  I'd really only want to execute it overnight - or maybe even once a week.

I know I can set the ".pollinginterval", but I can't make it execute at a certain time. It's still a bit arbitrary on when it does the 1st check, which then determines the time for all future checks.