In FireDaemon Pro, schedules can be defined to start or restart a program at a given point in time or to run within a given time interval. Schedules can be repeated endlessly, or they can be limited to a fixed date range.

A schedule can start or stop a program on a particular day, week, month, or year. A schedule can also be defined as "nth day of the week in a month", which allows you to start or stop a program on a given weekday, e.g. on 3rd Monday of January.

A schedule is created either through the FireDaemon user interface or by importing a schedule definition in an XML file.

Further details are provided in the following sub-sections

• The New Schedule Dialog
• Adding a New Schedule
• Importing a Schedule
• Examples of Schedule Definitions

The New Schedule Dialog

To create a new schedule, click the Add Schedule button (the Plus icon) on the Service Definition toolbar.

The following table describes the fields on the New Schedule page.

Adding a New Schedule

1. In FireDaemon Pro, open the service which is to be scheduled.
   
   
2. In the Service Definition panel, click on the Scheduling tab.
   
   
3. On the toolbar, click the Add Schedule button.
   
   
   
4. The New Schedule dialog box appears. In this dialog box, enter the appropriate schedule settings.
   
   
   For more information about the schedule fields, see The New Schedule Dialog.
   
   
5. Click the OK button.
   
   The new schedule is added to the Scheduling tab.
   
   
   

Importing a Schedule

FireDaemon Pro provides two options for Importing a schedule in an XML file. These are accessed via the pulldown menu arrow button on the Service Definition toolbar. 

1. In FireDaemon Pro, open the service that is to be modified.
   
   
2. In the Service Definition panel, click on the Scheduling tab.
   
   
3. On the Service Definition toolbar, click the arrow next to the Add Schedule button.
   
   
   A drop-down menu appears.
   
   
4. Select one of the following options:
   • Import and Amend Schedule: Amend the existing schedule(s) using the imported schedule(s). Existing schedule(s) of the same name are replaced. 
   • Import and Replace Schedule: Delete all existing schedule(s) and replace them with the imported schedule(s).
     
     
5. Select the XML file that contains the schedule details and click the Open button.
   
   FireDaemon Pro immediately imports the new scheduling definitions and updates the schedule list accordingly.
   
   

Examples of Schedule Definitions

This section provides some sample schedule definitions in XML format.

To use one of these examples, copy and save the XML fragment to a .XML file on your system. Then import it into FireDaemon Pro as explained in Importing a Schedule above.

Restart on 1st day of each month

This schedule will restart the service at 4:00 AM on the 1st day of each month.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<fds:schedules xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:fds="http://xml.firedaemon.com/scheduling/v2" xmlns:fd="http://xml.firedaemon.com">
    <schedule name="Restart on 1st day of each each month at 4AM">
        <interval xsi:type="fds:attributive_interval" granularity="month_interval" length="1" blueprint="evenly_clocked">
            <onset minute="0" hour="4" monthday="0"/>
        </interval>
    </schedule>
</fds:schedules>

Restart on 2nd Tuesday each month

This schedule will restart the service at 4:00 AM on the 2nd Tuesday of every month.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<fds:schedules xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:fds="http://xml.firedaemon.com/scheduling/v2" xmlns:fd="http://xml.firedaemon.com">
    <schedule name="Restart on 2nd Tuesday each month at 4AM">
        <interval xsi:type="fds:attributive_interval" granularity="month_interval" length="1" blueprint="evenly_clocked">
            <onset minute="0" hour="4" weekday="1" first_dow="0" nth_kday_of_month="2"/>
        </interval>
    </schedule>
</fds:schedules>