Scheduling an Action

An action can be regularly performed at a preset time interval instead of being triggered by a specific event. For example, you can make the PXE report the reading or state of a specific environmental sensor regularly by scheduling the "Send Sensor Report" action.

When scheduling an action, make sure you have a minimum of 1-minute buffer time between this action's execution time and creation time. Otherwise, the scheduled action will NOT be performed at the specified time if the buffer time is too short. For example, if you want an action to be performed at 11:00 am, you should finish scheduling this action at 10:59 am or earlier.

Note: It may be meaningless to schedule certain actions like "Log event message" or "Syslog message" so consider about the usability when scheduling an action.

  1. Choose Device Settings > Event Rules. The Event Rule Settings dialog appears.
  2. Click the Scheduled Actions tab.
  3. Click New.
  4. In the "Timer name" field, type a name for this scheduled action. The default name is New Timer <n>, where <n> is the sequential number starting at 1.
  5. Make sure the Enabled checkbox is selected, or the PXE will not carry out this scheduled action.
  6. Select the desired time frequency from the Execution Time field and then specify the time interval or a specific date and time in the Time field.

    Time options

    Frequency settings

    Minutes

    The frequency in minutes ranges from every minute, every 5 minutes, every 10 minutes and so on until every 30 minutes.

    Hourly

    The hourly option sets the frequency to either of the following:

    • One hour - then set the Minute field to 0 (zero).
    • Between one and two hours, such as one hour and one minute, one hour and thirty minutes, or one hour and 59 minutes. In this case, specify a non-zero number in the Minute field.

    Daily

    You need to specify the time for this daily option. For example, if you specify 13:30 in the Time field, the action is performed at 13:30 every day.

    Weekly

    Both the day and time must be specified for the weekly option. Days range from Sunday to Monday.

    Monthly

    Both the date and time must be specified for the monthly option. The dates range from 1 to 31, and the time is specified in 24-hour format.

    Note that NOT every month has the date 31, and February in particular does not have the date 30 and probably even 29. Check the calendar when selecting 29, 30 or 31.

    Yearly

    This option requires three settings:

    • Month - January through December.
    • Date - 1 to 31.
    • Time - the value is specified in 24-hour format.

       

  7. In the Actions field, select the desired action from the "Available actions" list box, and click Non-critical outlet Arrow--left to move it to the "Selected actions" list box. To make multiple selections, press Ctrl+click or Shift+click to highlight multiple ones.
  8. To remove any action, select it from the "Selected actions" list box, and click Non-critical outlet Arrow--right to move it back to the "Available actions" list box. To make multiple selections, press Ctrl+click or Shift+click to highlight multiple ones.
  9. Click OK.

See Also

Creating an Event Rule

Creating Actions

Creating Rules

Default Log Messages

Email and SMS Message Placeholders