Schedule operations for HMC Version 10.3.1060.0, or earlier
Create a schedule for certain operations to be performed on the managed system without operator assistance.
Scheduled operations are helpful for situations where automatic, delayed, or repetitious processing of system operations is necessary. A scheduled operation is started at a specified time, without operator assistance to perform the operation. A schedule can be set for one operation or repeated many times.
For example, you might schedule power on or off operations for a managed system.
The Scheduled operations task displays the following information for each
operation:
- The processor that is the object of the operation.
- The scheduled date
- The scheduled time
- The operation
- The number of remaining repetitions
Notes:
- You can specify the number of weeks or months to elapse before performing the scheduled operation again on each selected day.
- With the Hardware Management Console (HMC) Version 10.1.1020, or later, you can specify the interval to be monthly. The scheduled operation is run on the configured time and month. It is also run on the subsequent months based on the number of repetitions and monthly intervals that you have configured.
- For example, if you configure the scheduled operation for 31st of every month with five repetitions, then the scheduled operation is executed every month on 31st, and if a particular month does not have 31st then that repetition is executed on the last day of the month. For example, if you configure the scheduled operation from 31 January with five repetitions, then the operation is executed on 31 January, 28 February, 31 March, 30 April, and 31 May.
From the Scheduled Operations window, you can perform the following
tasks:
- Schedule an operation to run later.
- Define operations to repeat at regular intervals.
- Delete a previously scheduled operation.
- View details for a currently scheduled operation.
- View scheduled operations within a specified time range.
- Sort scheduled operations by date, operation, or managed system.
You can schedule an operation to occur once or you can schedule it to repeat. You must provide the time and date that you want the operation to occur. If you want the operation to repeat, you are asked to select the following options:
- The day or days of the week that you want the operation to occur. (optional)
- The interval, or time between each occurrence. (required)
- The total number of repetitions. (required)
The operations that you can schedule for the managed system include the following operations:
- Activate on a System Profile
- Schedules an operation on a selected system for scheduling activation of a selected system profile.
- Backup Profile Data
- Schedules an operation to back up profile data for a managed system.
- Power Off Managed System
- Schedules an operation for a system power off at regular intervals for a managed system.
- Power On Managed System
- Schedules an operation for a system power-on at regular intervals for a managed system.
- Manage Utility CoD processors
- Schedules an operation for managing how your Utility CoD processors are used.
- Manage Utility CoD processor minute usage limit
- Creates a limit for Utility CoD processor usage.
- Modify a Shared Processor Pool
- Schedules an operation for modifying a shared processor pool.
- Move a partition to a different pool
- Schedules an operation for moving a partition to a different processor pool.
- Change power saver mode on a managed system
- Schedules an operation for changing a managed system's power saver mode.
- Monitor/Perform Dynamic Platform Optimize
- Schedules an operation for performing dynamic platform optimization and for sending an email notification alert to a user.
To schedule operations on the managed system, complete the following steps:
- In the navigation area, click System resources, and then select Systems.
- Select one or more managed systems, and then click .
- From the Scheduled operations window, click Options
from the menu bar to display the next level of options:
- To add a scheduled operation, click Options and then click New.
- To delete a scheduled operation, select the operation that you want to delete, point to Options and then click Delete.
- To update the list of scheduled operations with the current schedules for the selected objects, point to Options and then click Refresh.
- To view a scheduled operation, select the operation that you want to view, point to View and then click Schedule Details....
- To change the time of a scheduled operation, select the operation that you want to view, point to View and then click New Time Range....
- To sort the scheduled operations, point to Sort and then click one of the sort categories that appears.
- To close the window, click Options and then click Exit.