snapshots schedule

Sets a schedule for generating snapshot reports by the Analysis and Reporting module.

snapshots schedule <hour> [ <day-of-month> [ <month> [ <day-of-week> ]]]
 
no snapshots schedule
 

• hour--integer in range 0 through 23, or * (for every hour), or comma separated list of hours (1,2)
• day-of-month--integer in range 1 through 31, or * (for every day of the month), or comma-separated list of days (1,15)
• month--integer in range 1 through 12, or * (for every month of the year), or comma-separated list of months (1,4,7,10)
• day-of-week--integer in range 0 through 7, or * (for every day of the week; both 0 and 7 designate Sunday), or comma-separated list of days (1,2,3,4,5)

Must be in report configuration mode (config-report), which requires privileged-level access.

Use once.

Reports are generated every 12 hours, at 00:00 and 12:00:

• hour--0,12
• day-of-month--*
• month--*
• day-of-week--*

Scheduling is done by the cron utility. Arguments are specified in limited crontab format (only those forms listed in the Arguments section of this description; do not include spaces in comma-separated lists).

If you specify both a day of the month and a day of the week, both will be honored. That is, if you specify the third day of the week (Tuesday) and the fourth day of the month, reports will be generated every Tuesday and on the fourth day of the month regardless of the day of week.

Use the no form of the command to reset the schedule to the default.

Snapshot reports are generated from the hourly snapshot image of the database. The schedule you set with the snapshots schedule command determines how often the reporting module will extract data from the database to. This extracted data will be used for the following purposes:

• generate snapshot reports
• update the trending database

See the sample-collection command for information about the hourly snapshot image.

See the trending size command for information about the trending database.