Schedules

A series of things to be done or of events to occur at or during a particular time or period. In the context of cfxOIA RDA pipelines construct, a schedule is a particular time or period that project admins preconfigure in order to run a pipeline or pipelines.

Schedules allow admins to perform nightly or periodic job execution for data updates and/or the periodic collection or to perform a logical task (e.g. Nagios alert enrichment or CMDB data collection or vROps attributes enrichment, etc).

cfxOIA RDA provides 'Schedules' functionality allowing users to define/create schedules to perform periodic execution of pipelines. The following screenshot depicts 'Schedules' UI functionality:

Important elements that are depicted as part of Schedules UI are as follows:

Schedule Name, Description, Continue On Pipeline failure, Frequency, Cron Expression, etc.

Users can add schedules using the '+' action button provided on the main landing page of 'Schedules' UI as shown below.

Once users click the '+' action, button, RDA UI pops up the following UI to set up a schedule for a pipeline as shown below.

An example schedule for the 'Nagios' enrichment pipeline is captured via the following screenshots. Users will be able to use this as a reference to create other pipeline schedules.

Schedules UI provides the following action buttons (as shown in the screenshot)