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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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Mosh
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8 years ago

I need this too.  As an example use case, we have CSV files that are transferred from host to host.  There is no point continually checking for the existence of the CSV file when it only needs to exist between 3am and 4am.

Another use case, at instance level, we have certain volumes that are used as temporary space during the creation of backups (tarballs, zips, etc.).  We're only interested in monitoring these volumes during the backup period, say 11pm to 2am.  Outisde of these hours we don't care how these volumes are used.