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 Scheduling a Maintenance Plan Automatically

Use

You can use the automatic deadline monitoring to schedule a maintenance plan again or for the first time. For further information, see scheduling and rescheduling .

Prerequisites

You have entered a start date or an initial counter reading in the scheduling parameters for the maintenance plan, or you have already scheduled the maintenance plan once (see First-Time Scheduling ).

Procedure

  1. In the maintenance planning menu , choose Start of the navigation path Scheduling Next navigation step for Maintenance Plans Next navigation step Deadline Monitoring Next navigation step . End of the navigation path

  2. You reach the initial screen for deadline monitoring.

  3. Enter the maintenance plans or maintenance strategies for which the system should perform scheduling.

  4. Select either Call transaction or BDC session (batch input) . The Call Transaction mode is proposed by the system.

  5. Start the program using Start of the navigation path Program Next navigation step Execute Next navigation step . End of the navigation path

The system generates maintenance calls and/or maintenance call objects for the maintenance plan(s) selected.

See also

Displaying Maintenance Call Objects