Managing the BMC AMI Utility Management schedule settings

You can schedule the utility processing criteria for groups of table spaces, indexes, and applications. Use the following procedures to add to, edit, or delete a schedule in the Schedules table.

To add a schedule

  1. In the Product Tools perspective, select or add a BMC AMI Utility Management view.
  2. In the Schedules tab, click Add schedule

  3. in the General tab, complete the following fields:


    Field

    Description

    Type

    Select one of the following types:

    • Applications

    • Table spaces

    • Indexes

    Name pattern

    Enter a name pattern for the group of objects or applications for which you want to create a schedule. You can use the * or % wildcard, or both.

    Partition

    Enter a partition number or specify 0 for all partitions.

    Comment

    (Optional) Enter a comment describing the schedule.

  4. In the Schedule tab, complete the following fields:


    Field

    Description

    Utility ID

    Either leave this field blank to include all utility IDs in this schedule, or enter a utility ID to limit this schedule to that utility. For more information, see Creating a Utility Status view.

    Apply to BMC AMI Reorg

    Apply to BMC AMI Copy

    Apply to BMC AMI Stats

    Select one or more utilities that you want to schedule.

    Include or Exclude

    Indicate whether to include or exclude the group of objects from processing according to the schedule.

    Monthly

    Weekly

    Select when to perform the processing:

    • On a specific day of each month, or a specific day of a specific month

    • Every day of the month

    • On a specific day each week, or every day of the week

    Start time

    Select a start time for the process.

    Important

    The product does not support starting a process before midnight and completing it the following day. For that scenario, you would need to create two schedules (one ending at 23:59:59 and one beginning at 00:00:00).

    End time

    Select an end time for the process.

  5. Click OK .
    is displayed next to each added schedule.
  6. Click Save Changes to save all the changes to the BMC AMI Utility Management view.
  1. In the Product Tools perspective, select or add an NGT Utility Management view.
  2. In the Schedules tab, click Add schedule

    Tip

    You can also right-click in the table to select this action.

  3. in the General tab, complete the following fields:


    Field

    Description

    Type

    Select one of the following types:

    • Applications

    • Table spaces

    • Indexes

    Name pattern

    Enter a name pattern for the group of objects or applications for which you want to create a schedule. You can use the * or % wildcard, or both.

    Partition

    Enter a partition number or specify 0 for all partitions.

    Comment

    (Optional) Enter a comment describing the schedule.

  4. In the Schedule tab, complete the following fields:


    Field

    Description

    Utility ID

    Either leave this field blank to include all utility IDs in this schedule, or enter a utility ID to limit this schedule to that utility. For more information, see Creating a Utility Status view.

    Apply to NGT Reorg

    Apply to NGT Copy

    Apply to NGT Stats

    Select one or more utilities that you want to schedule.

    Include or Exclude

    Indicate whether to include or exclude the group of objects from processing according to the schedule.

    Monthly

    Weekly

    Select when to perform the processing:

    • On a specific day of each month, or a specific day of a specific month

    • Every day of the month

    • On a specific day each week, or every day of the week

    Start time

    Select a start time for the process.

    Note

    The product does not support starting a process before midnight and completing it the following day. For that scenario, you would need to create two schedules (one ending at 23:59:59 and one beginning at 00:00:00).

    End time

    Select an end time for the process.

  5. Click OK .
    is displayed next to each added schedule.
  6. Click Save Changes to save all the changes to the NGT Utility Management view.

To edit schedules

You can edit multiple criteria, exceptions, schedules and (BMC.DB2.SPE2201) Open link  durations before you save all the changes to the BMC AMI Utility Management view in one action.

  1. In the Product Tools perspective, select a BMC AMI Utility Management view.
  2. In the Schedules table, select a schedule that you want to edit and click Edit schedule .
    The schedule that you are editing is displayed at the top of the dialog box. 
  3. In the Edit BMC AMI Utility Management Schedule dialog box, edit the values in the General and Schedule tabs.
  4. (Optional) Edit additional schedules using the Previous schedule and Next schedule arrows to navigate to another exception.
  5. When you have completed your edits, click OK
      is displayed next to each edited schedule.

  6. Verify the edited schedule, you can reset the changes, by selecting one or more edited schedules and clicking .

  7. (Optional) You can now edit the Criteria, Exceptions, and Durations settings.
  8. Click Save Changes  to save all the changes to the BMC AMI Utility Management view.

    Important

    Next time that you select an edited schedule, the Last update field will show the user ID and timestamp of the last update to the schedule.

  1. In the Product Tools perspective, select an NGT Utility Management view.
  2. In the Schedules table, select a schedule that you want to edit and click Edit schedule .
    The schedule that you are editing is displayed at the top of the dialog box. 
  3. In the Edit Utility Management Schedule dialog box, edit the values in the General and Schedule tabs.
  4. (Optional) Edit additional schedules using the Previous schedule and Next schedule arrows to navigate to another exception.
  5. When you have completed your edits, click OK
      is displayed next to each edited schedule.

  6. Verify the edited schedule, you can reset the changes, by selecting one or more edited schedules and clicking .

  7. (Optional) You can now edit the Criteria and Exceptions settings.
  8. Click  to save all the changes to the NGT Utility Management view.

    Note

    Next time that you select an edited schedule, the Last update field will show the user ID and timestamp of the last update to the schedule.

To delete schedules

  1. In the Product Tools perspective, select a BMC AMI Utility Management view.
  2. In the Schedules table, select one or more schedules for deletion.
  3. Click Delete schedules .
     is displayed next to each schedule that you selected to delete.
  4. Verify the schedules that you selected to delete, you can undo the deletions, by selecting one or more selected schedules and clicking .
  5. Click Save Changes  to confirm the deletions from the BMC AMI Utility Management view.
  1. In the Product Tools perspective, select an NGT Utility Management view.
  2. In the Schedules table, select one or more schedules for deletion.
  3. Click Delete schedules .
     is displayed next to each schedule that you selected to delete.
  4. Verify the schedules that you selected to delete, you can undo the deletions, by selecting one or more selected schedules and clicking .
  5. Click  to confirm the deletions from the NGT Utility Management view.


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