Scheduling a Blackout Script for Execution

This task describes how to schedule a blackout script for execution. You can only use this procedure to schedule blackout scripts that were created using the PATROL for UNIX blackout scheduling features. If you have created other blackout scripts outside of PATROL, you must use the procedure documented in Scheduling-a-Task-for-Execution-via-the-Operating-System-Command-Line-Processor.

Before you begin

The blackout script must be one that was created using the blackout scheduling features provided by PATROL for UNIX. See Creating a Monitoring Blackout Script for instructions about using BMC PATROL to create a blackout script.

To Schedule an Existing Blackout Script for Execution

1. Access the SCHEDULER application menu as described in Accessing KM Commands and InfoBoxes.
2. Select Scheduling Blackouts from the SCHEDULER application menu. The PATROL Blackout Scheduler dialog box is displayed.
3. Highlight a script in the Blackout Script Files group box.
4. Select Schedule Selected Script from the Action group box and click OK. The Schedule PATROL PslExecute() Action dialog box is displayed.
5. In the Execute Script at:group box, use the spinner buttons or type a value in the following fields to schedule the blackout script:The [confluence_table-plus] macro is a standalone macro and it cannot be used inline.
   
6. If you want to set the blackout script to occur at regularly scheduled intervals, use the spinner buttons or type values in the following fields of the Repeat Execution:group box:The [confluence_table-plus] macro is a standalone macro and it cannot be used inline.
   

7. Select the Execute Once Immediatelyoption if you want the script to execute now.

   Note

   If you do not select this option and you are scheduling a script that was supposed to run in the past, it will not run again until the repeated execution runtime. For example, if you have a blackout script that is supposed to run every Sunday evening, but you fill out this dialog box on a Monday morning, BMC PATROL will not run the script until the next scheduled execution. You must toggle the Execute Once Immediately button on to run the script now.

8. Click Accept. The dialog box closes, and BMC PATROL schedules the blackout script for execution.

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