Scheduling Background Jobs

Use

On the Scheduling screen, you can choose to schedule the job to run in the background at a specified time or choose to run the job in the foreground.

To execute the job immediately, select the Foreground checkbox, and choose Submit.

Procedure

To execute the job as a background job:

  1. Under the Schedule section, select Background.
  2. To set the job to recur multiple times, select the Recurring Plan option as Yes, then select the date and times.

    You can set the Frequency as: Hourly, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly.

    In the Recurrence field, you can set the background job to recur for every number of hours. For example, recur every 4 hours.

  3. To set the job to execute only one time, select the Recurring Plan option to No. You can choose to start the job immediately or to start at a specific date and time.
  4. Choose Submit.