Information About the Command Scheduler
The Cisco NX-OS command scheduler provides a facility to schedule a job (set of CLI commands) or multiple jobs at a specified time in the future. The job(s) can be executed once at a specified time in the future or at periodic intervals.
You can use this feature to schedule zone set changes, make QoS policy changes, back up data, save the configuration and do other similar jobs.
Scheduler Terminology
The following terms are used in this chapter:
- Job—A job is a set of NX-OS CLI commands (EXEC and config mode) that are executed as defined in the schedule.
- Schedule—A schedule determines the time when the assigned jobs must be executed. Multiple jobs can be assigned to a schedule. A schedule executes in one of two modes: one-time or periodic.
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Periodic mode—A job is executed at the user-specified periodic intervals, until it is deleted by the administrator. The following
types of periodic intervals are supported:
- Daily—The job is executed once a day.
- Weekly—The job is executed once a week.
- Monthly—The job is executed once a month.
- Delta—The job is executed beginning at the specified start time and thereafter at user-specified intervals (days:hours:minutes).
- One-time mode—The job is executed once at a user-specified time.