System administration
Schedule system maintenance tasks
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interval
: The script will start running at the specified interval, within 30 seconds
after the configuration change is saved. If
interval
is selected:
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Set the interval:
(config system schedule script 0)> on_interval
value
(config system schedule script 0)>
where
value
is any number of weeks, days, hours, minutes, or seconds, and
takes the format
number
{
w|d|h|m|s
}.
For example, to set
on_interval
to ten minutes, enter either
10m
or
600s
:
(config system schedule script 0)> on_interval
600s
(config system schedule script 0)>
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(Optional) Configure the script to run only a single instance at a time:
(config system schedule script 0)> once true
(config system schedule script 0)>
If
once
is set to
false
, a new instance of the script will be started at every
interval, regardless of whether the script is still running from a previous
interval.
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set_time
: Runs the script at a specified time of the day.
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If
set_time
is set, set the time that the script should run, using the format
HH
:
MM
:
(config system schedule script 0)> run_time
HH
:
MM
(config system schedule script 0)>
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maintenance_time
: The script will run during the system maintenance time
window.
d. Set the commands that will execute the script:
(config system schedule script 0)> commands
filename
(config system schedule script 0)>
where
filename
is the path and filename of the script, and any related command line
information.
If the script begins with
#!
, then the script will be invoked in the location specified by the
path for the script command. Otherwise, the default shell will be used (equivalent to
#!/bin/sh
).
e. Script logging options:
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To log the script's output to the system log:
(config system schedule script 0)> syslog_stdout true
(config system schedule script 0)>
