Irregular Schedule - One time per day

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Irregular Schedule - One time per day

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I would love to be able to do some tests at the same time every day. At the moment the best I seem to be able to do is the set a test interval of 23hours and 59 minutes. What I really want is for these tests to happen at 9am every morning.

I think the solution would be to add an irregular scheduling option that allow the test to be performed once per day at a prescribed time.
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Re: Irregular Schedule - One time per day

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terje wrote:I would love to be able to do some tests at the same time every day. At the moment the best I seem to be able to do is the set a test interval of 23hours and 59 minutes. What I really want is for these tests to happen at 9am every morning.
Really, this is not the best solution. I think you should use Sheduler http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/mfra ... #Schedules for such purposes. E.g. you may create new shedule, uncheck all time intervals and then check only 9am interval for every day in a week. Also you may use Tune to define schedules with up-to-the-minute precision.
terje wrote:I think the solution would be to add an irregular scheduling option that allow the test to be performed once per day at a prescribed time.
I do not think Alex would implement such task

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Post by KS-Soft »

I think the solution would be to add an irregular scheduling option that allow the test to be performed once per day at a prescribed time.
We have such task in "to do" list but I am not sure when it will be implemented because we have more important tasks.
This task is not high priority task becase there is easy workaround - Schedules (here Yoorix is right)

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Post by terje »

Thanks for the link. I had looked at schedules but I did not think they would do the job.

The test I have in mind tests the event log to see if backups have failed. The test only looks at the event log since the last test was run so it is important to test one time only during the day otherwise the status may incorrectly show a status as if their was no problem reported during the last backup.

The problem with schedules is that if I do a single test at 9am then most of the day the status of the test will show as "Out of Schedule" rather than the status that the test had when it executed at 9am which is what I want.
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Post by terje »

Hi,

Do we know if the enhancement will be in the next version or anytime soon? It countinues to be an issue as outlined above. Another of our engineers brought up this issue with me today.

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Post by KS-Soft »

Task still have medium priority
The problem with schedules is that if I do a single test at 9am then most of the day the status of the test will show as "Out of Schedule" rather than the status that the test had when it executed at 9am which is what I want.
That's easy to change. Set long test interval to this test item (e.g. 23 hours 57 min) and HostMonitor will not use "Out of schedule" status (ok, you will see this status just 3 min before next probe).

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Post by terje »

Thanks for that. After some fiddling I think we just figured that out here at almost the same time that you posted your reply.

There is one problem with this still in that it means that you need to create schedules for all the conceivable times of the day when you want different tests to run. For example if you want a test to run at 11:30 am then you need a shedule such as 11:30am-12:30pm. If you have some other test that you want to run at 4pm you need to create another schedule for that such as 4pm to 5pm. So it works but it is not that neat.
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May be we implement this in next version. But I cannot guarantee

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Post by KS-Soft »

Ok, update available at www.ks-soft.net/download/hm621c.zip
Please install version 6.20 before using this update

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Post by terje »

:D

Fantastic. It seems to work a treat.

Is it okay to presume that this will get rolled into the next general release?
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Post by terje »

Actually it seems to be having problems with lots of tests now. Lots of tests fail saying that licence limit has been reached. This is even though I entered the registration details after doing the reinstall and even though the licence pages says we are licenced for 20000000 tests.

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Post by KS-Soft »

Is it okay to presume that this will get rolled into the next general release
Yes
Lots of tests fail saying that licence limit has been reached.
"License limit" means you are using more RMA than allowed by your license. May be your "free update" term has been expired. Please send your registration name or order number to support@ks-soft.net

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Post by terje »

Thanks for that. It turns out that when I did the reinstall I used an old registration key that did not account for all our licences. I have changed to the latest licence key and it all seems okay now.
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