Agent Schedule form
Completing the Schedule tab

Field

Description

Server name of a node. Read-only.

The name of the agent. Copied from the agents rule. Read-only.

Applies To class of the agent activity. Copied from the agents rule. Read-only.

Name of the agent activity. Copied from the agents rule. Read-only.

Specifies the schedule type for the agent activity:

• Periodic — The agent runs the activity and then "sleeps" for the number of seconds entered in the Interval column.
• Recurring — The agent runs the activity based on a specified calendar schedule (for example, every Monday at 5:00 P.M.).

This value overrides the Pattern specified in the corresponding agents rule (from which this agent schedule was generated). For information about configuring the interval or schedule for this agent schedule instance, see PDN article How to set agent scheduling intervals.

If the Pattern field is set to Periodic, enter the amount of time, in seconds, that the agent waits before starting (or restarting) this activity after the queue is empty. Enter a value of at least five seconds.

The value you enter in this field overrides the value specified in the corresponding agents rule.

If the Pattern field is set to Recurring, click Advanced to examine or modify the schedule in the Recurrence dialog box.

Completing the Recurrence dialog box

1. Enter a time in the Start field.

2. Specify the time zone in the time zone field. Be sure to use the long designation rather than the three-letter acronym; for example, use "America/New_York" rather than EST. Otherwise you need to edit the schedules twice a year to accommodate the change to and from Daylight Savings Time — for example, change EST to EDT in the Spring, and then back to EST again in the Fall.

3. Configure one of the options in the Pattern section.

4. Click OK to close the dialog box. (The values you entered do not appear on the Schedule tab.)

This information overrides the values entered for this field in the corresponding agents rule.

Enables or disables the agent. This value overrides the Enabled setting specified in the corresponding agents rule.

Field

Description

Enables or disables all the agents in the list that have their individual Enabled option selected. Select to enable; clear to disable. The value of this option overrides the Enable this Agent option in the corresponding agents rule.

When the Master Agent initially creates an agent schedule instance, the value of this option is copied from the corresponding agent rule. If the agent rule's Enable this agent option is enabled, the corresponding agent schedule instance or instances are enabled and processing begins.

If agent processing produces a Java exception, in most cases the exception details are added to the Pega log and the system clears this option, disabling the agent (on one node). You can restart the agent on this node by updating the Agent Schedule data instance or through the System Management Application. However Java Out-of-Memory (OOM) conditions — often temporary — do not cause such automatic disabling.

The wake-up interval to use for agents whose Pattern is set to Periodic but do not have a value specified in their Interval fields. Enter a wake up interval of five seconds or more.