Administering schedulers
Use the Status page in the Helix Capacity Optimization Console to administer a scheduler.
To access the Status page, in the Helix Capacity Optimization Console, click Administration > System > Status. The Status page displays the components, including schedulers, per host. Each box is color-coded to indicate its status.
About schedulers
A scheduler is a BMC Helix Capacity Optimization service that manages the run of assigned tasks at predefined intervals. A task is an activity performed by a BMC Helix Capacity Optimization component. Tasks can be run manually or scheduled for automatic run.
Most BMC Helix Capacity Optimization activities are performed by tasks; for example, golden analysis run, enterprise reports, optimizer, data import, data warehousing, and so on. There are two basic categories of tasks: System tasks and ETL tasks, which are further divided into task types. Each task is associated with a scheduler process that manages its run and log recording.
Schedulers are of two types:
- Primary scheduler
- Generic scheduler
A scheduler runs all the time. If it is interrupted, its task will not run.
When a task is created, it is possible to schedule it so that the scheduler will run it at the predefined intervals, and report its execution results and logs.
There can be more than one scheduler running at any time, each managing different tasks.
To administer a scheduler
To check the status of the Scheduler component, on the Status page, review the color of the Scheduler component box.
To check the logs or rename the component, click the component box and click the appropriate button.