Scheduling load processes

Scheduling enables you to run the load processes overnight, or at times when the system is idle when BIRT Analytics users are not it.

The Scheduled tasks tab enables you to create and manage scheduled tasks, as shown in Figure 6‑4.

Figure 6‑4 Scheduling tasks

The following activities are available:

Refresh

Refresh scheduled tasks.

New

Create new tasks. When creating a new task, you must provide the following information, as shown in Figure 6‑5:

Figure 6‑5 Creating a scheduled task

Project

Select a project name.

Settings

Time settings, such as minute, hour, day of month, month, and day of week. Time settings use the following syntax:

Minute

Minutes within the hour (0-59)

Hour

The hour of the day (0-23)

Day of month

The day of the month (1-31)

Month

The month (1-12)

Day of week

The day of the week (0-7), where both 0 and 7 are Sunday

To specify multiple values for one column, the following operators are available, as listed in Table 6‑1, in the order of precedence.

Table 6‑1 Scheduling operators
Operators	Description	Examples
*	Match all values of a field.	Using an asterisk in Month indicates every month.
M-N	Define a range.	1-5 in Day of week means from Monday to Friday.
*/X	Specify multiple values based on a start position and a period.	*/15 in Minute selects 0, 15, 30, 45 minutes. 3-59/15 in Minute indicates the third minute of the hour and every 15 minutes thereafter.
A,B,...,Z	Commas are used to separate items of a list.	0,30 for minutes, or 1,3,5 for days of the week.

Active

The task does not run if Active is not selected.

Description

A short note describing the scheduled task.

Edit

Edit tasks.

Remove

Remove tasks.

View logs

View execution logs, as shown in Figure 6‑6.

Figure 6‑6 Viewing scheduled task log

Stopping the Tomcat service

BIRT Analytics installs with Tomcat Apache. To prevent end users from logging in to BIRT Analytics, stop the web server on which BIRT Analytics runs, using either a command‑line editor or Windows Services.