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Creating an Entry for a Schedule on a Solaris Platform

A number of schedule entries, or rules, comprise each service schedule.

To use SDX Admin to create an entry:

  1. In the Service Schedule pane, click New.

The Schedule Event dialog box appears.

  1. In the Schedule tab of the Schedule Event dialog box:

See Setting the Time Schedule.

  1. In the Action tab of the Schedule Event dialog box, fill in the fields.

See Setting the Action.

  1. To add another action to the entry, in the Action tab click Add Action.
  2. To remove an action from the entry, in the Action tab, click Remove Action.
  3. After you complete entries in the Schedule Event dialog box, click OK to return to the Service Schedule pane.
  4. To add the entry to the list of entries in the service schedule, click Add.
  5. After you enter all schedules and actions, click OK in the Schedule Event dialog box.

The completed schedule appears in the Service Schedule pane.

Setting the Time Schedule

When you set up a time schedule, you specify:

Sample Time Definitions

Table 10 provides descriptions of common schedule configurations.




Table 10: Sample Schedules  
Type of Event to Schedule
Sample Configuration Description

One-time event

Specify all time parameters except day of the week. Specify the time zone if it is different from the time zone for the SAE.

Recurring time-of-day event, such as a service that is activated every morning at 8:00 AM

Specify only the hour and minute parameters. All other parameters should have an *. Specify the time zone if it is different from the time zone for the SAE.

Working-hours service

Define two schedules: one to activate the service and one to deactivate the service. In each schedule, specify the hour and minute, and specify the day of week as mon-fri. All other parameters should have an *. Specify the time zone if it is different from the time zone for the SAE.

NOTE: Subscribers must be logged in at the time that the service is activated.

No service restrictions on holidays

Define schedules for working-hour services as described above, and add exceptions for specified holidays, such as the first of January.

Configuring the Time Schedule

To configure the time schedule:

  1. Enter information in the fields in the Schedule tab in the Schedule Event dialog box.

Use the guidelines in Guidelines for Entering Time Values and the field descriptions in Time Values.

  1. To specify an exclusion from the schedule, in the Schedule tab of the Schedule Event dialog box, click New under Exclusion Entries.

The Schedule Exclusion dialog box appears.

  1. Enter information in the fields in the Schedule Exclusion dialog box; then click OK.

Use the guidelines in Guidelines for Entering Time Values and the field descriptions in Time Values,

Guidelines for Entering Time Values

When you enter information in the Schedule Event and Schedule Exclusion dialog boxes, you can use the values in the following list. See Time Values for a description of the fields.

NOTE: Dates in the To section of the dialog box apply only to services that have an authorization plug-in configured. If an authorization plug-in is not configured for the service associated with the schedule, the entries in the To section are ignored.


Time Values

In SDX Admin, you can modify the following fields in the Schedule Event and Schedule Exclusion dialog boxes. For information about general guidelines that apply to these fields, see Guidelines for Entering Time Values.

Exclusion Type

Hour

Minute

Day of Month

Day of Week

Month

Year

Effective Period

The effective period does not apply to schedules for excluded times; the entry is not present in the Schedule Exclusion dialog box.

Time Zone

GMT (+|-) (hh:mm | hh mm | hh)

hh—<hour>

mm—<minute>

Setting the Action

In SDX Admin, you can modify the following fields in the Action tab of the Schedule Event dialog box.

Action

Service

You can type the name of the service or click the folder icon to display the Select Service dialog box. Select the service in the dialog box, and click OK.

Substitutions

For more information, see the activateService method of the SAE external interface in the SAE CORBA remote API documentation in the SRC software distribution in the folder SDK/doc/idl or on the Juniper Networks Web site at

http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/management/sdx/api-index.html

For more information about substitutions and schedules, see Changing or Removing the Name of a Service Associated with a Schedule.

For information about the syntax for substitutions see Chapter 15, Defining and Acquiring Values for Parameters.

Attributes

Subscription attributes apply only to service activations.

For more information about subscription attributes, see the Subscription.html file in the SAE core portal API documentation in the SDK/doc/sae/net/juniper/smgt/sae/portal directory in the SRC software distribution or on the Juniper Networks Web site at

http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/management/sdx/api-index.html


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