Tasks in PhixFlow perform various jobs, including running analysis, archiving, and clearing old managed file and performance log records. Tasks are bundled into Task Plans, which can be requested by users, scheduled, or triggered by actions.
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| Field | Description |
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| Basic Settings | |
| Name | The name of the task plan. |
| Enabled | When the task plan configuration is complete, tick this box to enable it for use. To prevent the Task Plan being run, for example during maintenance, untick this box and the Task Plan will not run on the schedule or manually. |
| Scheduled | If ticked, an extra section will appear. This allows a regular schedule to be set up for the task plan. |
| Suspend on Failure | If ticked, the Suspended flag will be set to true if any error messages are generated by the task plan during execution. |
| Suspended | If the field Suspend on Failure is ticked, this box will be ticked by the system if any error messages are generated when the task plan is executed. This indicates that there is a problem which should be fixed before the Task Plan is run again. The next time the task plan runs, if this flag is still ticked, it will simply generate a one line error message in the log file stating that it cannot run as it has been suspended. To un-suspend the task plan, untick the field. |
| Tasks | |
A list of tasks in the task plan. To add a task, click | |
| Schedule | |
This section only appears if the Scheduled box in Basic Settings is ticked. Each of these elements can be specified with an explicit value (e.g 6), a range (e.g 9-12), a repeating group (e.g. 5/10 - equivalent to 5,15,25,35,...), or a list of single values, ranges, etc. e.g. 1,3-5,10,20/5. Each of these elements other than Seconds can be set to a wild card ('*'), meaning all values. | |
| Seconds | Seconds element of the scheduled date/time, e.g. 0-59. |
| Minutes | Minutes element of the scheduled date/time e.g. 0-59. |
| Hours | Hours element of the scheduled date/time, e.g. 0-23. |
| Day of Month | Day of Month element of the scheduled date/time, e.g. 1-31. Day of Month can be specified relative to the end of the month e.g. 'L', the last day of the month, or 'L-2', two days before the last day of the month. A day of month followed by a 'W' means the nearest week-day to that day in the same month e.g. '15W' means if the 15th falls on a Saturday the TaskPlan will run on the preceding Friday, and if it falls on a Sunday it will be moved to the following Monday, '1W' means the first week-day of the month, and 'LW' means the last week-day in the month. Day of Week and Day of Month are mutually exclusive. One must be set to '?' (meaning no value specified), and the other defines the days that this Task Plan runs on. |
| Month | Month element of the scheduled date/time, e.g. 1-12 Month can also be specified as short names e.g. JAN,OCT-DEC |
| Day of Week | Day of week element of the scheduled date/time, e.g. 1-7. The week starts on Sunday. So Sunday = 1, Monday = 2, etc. Day of Week can also be specified as short names e.g. MON,WED-FRI A day of week name or number followed by an 'L' means the last day of week in the month e.g. 'FRIL' means the last Friday, '2L' means the last Monday. A day of week name or number followed by a hash ('#') and a number means the Nth day of week in the month e.g. '2#2' means the 2nd Monday in the month, 'FRI#5' means the 5th Friday in the month - if there is no 5th Friday in the month, that is equivalent to specifying no day of week. If the '#' character is used, there can only be one expression in the day-of-week field, so "3#1,6#3" is not valid, since there are two expressions. Day of Week and Day of Month are mutually exclusive. One must be set to '?' (meaning no value specified), and the other defines the days that this Task Plan runs on |
| Year | Year element of the scheduled date/time, e.g. 1970-2099. |
| Send By Email | |
You can set up an automated email to be sent with the results of a task plan run. Emails are generated in an outbound queue and actually sent by a separate email demon process. If it is not possible to send emails immediately, e.g. because the email server is down, the email demon process will try to re-send periodically until either it succeeds or until a timeout period has passed. | |
| Email From | The Email Address the generated email will appear from. |
| Subject Expression | Allows the user to build a PhixFlow Expression which will be used to create the Email Subject. The internal variables _errors, _warnings, _messages, _suspended and _taskPlan can be used in the Subject Expression. |
| Message Expression | Allows the user to build a PhixFlow Expression which will be used to create the message body of the email. The internal variables _errors, _warnings, _messages, _suspended and _taskPlan can be used in the Message Expression. |
| Notification | |
A list of the users that will be notified with the results of the task plan. This section contains the additional button Doing this will add the users with a blank notification rule, which means that the users will get an email every time this task plan runs. Edit the users in the list to update the notification rule, or add users manually using the | |
| User | Select a user configured in PhixFlow from the drop down list. |
| Email As | Choose one of:
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| Expression | An Expression which governs whether the recipient will receive the email generated by the Task Plan on completion. The internal variables _errors, _warnings, _messages and _suspended can be used in the User Notification Expression. In particular, the _suspended variable can be used to send an email to a recipient only if a Task in the Task Plan failed - leading to the Task Plan being suspended. While a Task Plan is suspended, no further emails will be sent even if the Task Plan is scheduled to run. Further, using the _errors variable, this expression can be set up so that a recipient is sent an email only if there are more than a certain number of error messages. |
Description | |
| Description | Description of the task plan. |
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