Understanding Schedules

The Orchestrator Studio gives you the option to create and assign a schedule to an orchestration. A schedule determines how often the Orchestrator executes an orchestration. For example, with a schedule, you can create an orchestration that regularly checks for a Watchlist threshold, that when exceeded, sends a notification to the appropriate users.

You define a schedule using minutes, hours, days, or a Cron string. Cron is a scheduling utility using cryptic strings to define an interval. Then you associate a schedule to an orchestration to determine how often it runs. You can attach the same schedule to multiple orchestrations.

You must have been granted proper UDO security to create schedules. Schedules are managed as UDOs, which means you need the proper UDO security in order to publish and share your schedules for others to use, or use schedules that others have published.

The scheduler is a process on the Application Interface Services (AIS) server that starts, stops, and manages schedules. An administrator uses the AIS Server REST API to start, stop, and manage schedules through the scheduler.