In order to utilize the crontab entry on CA PPM to schedule the recurring jobs there are some pre-requisites to be matched.
1. Make sure all your servers are in same timezone like application server it can be app or bg and Database Server.
2. Cron tab entry will take only the server time not the user account time from CA Clarity PPM.
3. Login to the CA PPM Application and go to the Jobs that you want to schedule using UNIX crontab feature.
4. Select the job and check the Scheduled checkbox.
5. Click the "Set Recurrence" link and scroll down little and select the option button "Use UNIX crontab entry format"
6. Crontab consist of Five fields separated by spaces
* * * * *
First Field represents the minute of the hour from [0-59]
Second Field represents the hour of the day from [00-23]
Third Field represents the day of the month from[1-31]
Fourth Field represents the month of the year from [1-12]
Fifth Field represents the day of the week from sunday to sunday [0-7]
0- sun
1-mon
2-tue
3-wed
4-thu
5-fri
6-sat
7-sun
If you are new to cron job scheduling and confused dont know what to do click here to see how your scheduled crontab values looks like.
How to schedule the CA PPM Jobs using Cron Use UNIX crontab entry format
DextersPPMLab
Friday, 20 May 2016
