Managing Parking Schedules

A parking schedule is a setting that sets up a window of time when parking actions (stop or start) are enforced on entities in your public cloud environment. Supported entities include VMs, Virtual Machine Specs (AWS Auto Scaling groups), Database Servers (AWS RDS), and Databases (Azure dedicated SQL pools). Click Park on the main menu to see a list of parkable entities.

Creating Parking Schedules

  1. Navigate to Settings > Schedule.

  2. In the Parking tab, click New Schedule > Parking Schedule.

    The Create Schedule page displays.

    Create Schedule page

  3. Provide a name and description.

    When attaching a parking schedule to one or more entities, you will see the name of the schedule. It is therefore important to use a name that will help you recognize each schedule and choose the appropriate one.

  4. Set the time zone.

    This gives a reference for the schedule's start time. Turbonomic uses that reference when it opens and closes the schedule window.

    You see the same time zone setting no matter where you are located. Convert the schedule time to your local time to track when the schedule opens in your working day.

  5. Set the schedule resolution.

    By default, each block in the schedule configuration section corresponds to an hour of the day. You can change this to 15-minute increments to give you more flexibility with scheduling. For example, with 15-minute increments, you can enforce parking actions between 8:15 and 20:45. This is not possible with the default schedule resolution.

  6. Set a parking schedule.

    Parking schedules recur every week, on the days and times that you specify. These schedules include the following states that define the parking policies that you can enforce.

    State

    Policy

    Running (green)

    A parkable entity must be running on the selected days and times.

    Turbonomic will start the entity immediately if:

    • The entity is not running at the beginning of the schedule.

    • A user stops the entity via the cloud provider.

    Stopped (red)

    A parkable entity must not be running on the selected days and times.

    Turbonomic will stop the entity immediately if:

    • The entity is running at the beginning of the schedule.

    • A user starts the entity via the cloud provider.

    Do Nothing (gray)

    Do not enforce parking actions on the selected days and times. This is the default state for all the blocks.

    Basic steps:

    1. Click either the Running (green) or Stopped (red) button.

    2. Click the blocks for the days and times the action will be enforced. To select multiple contiguous blocks, click and hold, and then drag in any direction.

    3. To undo your selections, click the Do Nothing (gray) button and then click the affected blocks.

    In the following example, stop actions are enforced every Saturday and Sunday. No parking actions are enforced on all the other days of the week. The selected blocks are shaded red.

    aParking schedule blocks

  7. Click Create.

The schedule can now be attached to the parkable entities listed in the Parking page. For details about the Parking page, see Park: Stop or Start Cloud Resources.

Deleting Parking Schedules

Only unattached parking schedules can be deleted.

  1. Click the three dots icon for the schedule.

  2. Click Delete.