The Monitoring Scheduler allows you to schedule jobs to monitor your controls. You schedule a job to execute based upon the control-rule assignments that are defined to monitor business transactions and configuration settings in target back end systems. These scheduled jobs run automatically based on the frequency, test period, and timeframe that you specify.
Rules must be assigned to controls. For more information, see Control Rule Assignment.
You can use the monitoring scheduler to do the following:
Schedule jobs to monitor and test controls with assigned rules
Create job schedules for multiple frequencies for one control-rule assignment
Monitor job logs, details, and status
To create a new job schedule to monitor controls, see Creating a Monitoring Schedule.
To view details about a scheduled job or to cancel scheduled jobs, see Viewing and Canceling Schedules or Jobs.
Example
You have a control in your financial process that prohibits journal entries in excess of $100,000 for prior periods for company code 0475 for a target back end system.
You can create a monitoring schedule containing a job (control and the assigned rule) that checks journal entries each month for the entire year (January to December) for company code 0475. The Monitoring Scheduler runs the job 12 times (once a month) and reports any exceptions (journal entries in excess of $100,000 in a prior period).
Alternatively, you may set the frequency to daily during the quarter-end months (for example, March, June, September, December). For those four months, you can create another job within the same schedule to run the monitoring test on a daily basis.