Forum Discussion

Eugene_C's avatar
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 ...
Tom_Lasswell's avatar
Tom_Lasswell
8 years ago

have you considered doing a script based event source? You could add a date/time execution to the script that says if ! 11pm -> 2am exit, otherwise run the check, then give an event alert if the files or processes don't exist? 

same could be true for a datasource, a script based datasource could have the same, if between a certain time just return 0 and exit, therefore not performing any actual task unless it's between your time.

a crude workaround but works for what you're looking for at the moment.