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Managing Schedules

An IT manager can configure schedules to be applied to BoD or firewall services for a specified enterprise subscriber. From Enterprise Manager Portal, you can establish schedules that identify the times when a specified BoD or firewall service can be activated or deactivated. Schedules are configured on a per-subscriber basis; they cannot be shared with other subscribers. Schedules are, however, inherited by subscribers subordinate to the subscriber for which the schedule is configured.

NOTE: NAT services cannot be scheduled.


Whether or not scheduling is available depends on the configuration for Enterprise Manager Portal and for the service.

To enable scheduling:

  1. Edit the web.xml file for the portal to enable scheduling. See Chapter 22, Installing and Configuring Enterprise Service Portals.

When scheduling is enabled for the portal, a Schedules tab appears on Enterprise Manager Portal page.

  1. Enable scheduling for the BoD or firewall service to be scheduled from Enterprise Manager Portal. See Chapter 17, Reviewing and Configuring Policies and Services for Enterprise Manager Portal.

If you plan to schedule BoD or firewall service subscriptions, you can configure the schedules first so that you can assign schedules at the time that you configure the subscription. If the subscriptions are already configured, you can edit the service definition to assign a schedule. The Schedules page lets you create new schedule definitions and view and change existing ones.

Each subscription, whether to the same service or to another one, can have its own schedule.

To use a schedule:

  1. Create the schedule. See Creating a Schedule.
  2. Apply the schedule to a subscription. See Applying a Schedule to a Service.

Creating a Schedule

To create a schedule:

  1. Click the Schedules tab.

The Schedules page appears.

  1. In the Schedules page, click Create.

The Schedule Definition Page appears.

  1. Using the field descriptions below, define a schedule, and click Save.

A description of the schedule appears in the Schedules page.

NOTE: The system generates the description of the service. If you want a page to display a different description, you can edit the JSP page and change and compile the Java classes found in the WAR file.

If you need assistance to make these changes, contact Juniper Professional Services.


Schedule Name

Subscription is

Start Time

Time Zone

Duration

During the interval from the start time to 2 hours after the start time, the action (defined on the Schedule Definition Page under the During schedule subscription is field) is available.

Once

Daily

Weekly

Monthly

Yearly

Range of recurrence Start by

The default indicates that the recurring schedule starts immediately—the next time the recurrence pattern applies.

Range of recurrence End by

The default indicates that the schedule has no end date and remains in place indefinitely.

Applying a Schedule to a Service

Before you can schedule a subscription, you must define a schedule. See Creating a Schedule.

To apply a schedule to a service that was configured earlier:

  1. In the navigation pane of Enterprise Manager Portal, click the subscriber for which you want to schedule a service.
  2. Click the tab for the type of service to be scheduled:
  1. On the same line as the service to be assigned to a schedule, select the name of a schedule under Schedule, and click Apply.

The service provider controls which services can be scheduled. Text on the page indicates which services cannot be scheduled.

Disabling a Schedule for a Service

When you disable a schedule for a subscription, the service remains in the same state as when the schedule was disabled. For example, if the service is inactive at the time the schedule is removed, the service remains inactive. This state can be different from the one indicated by the Enabled check box. After disabling a schedule for a service, ensure that the status of the service is the same as indicated by the Enabled check box.

To disable a schedule for a service:

  1. In the navigation pane of Enterprise Manager Portal, click the subscriber for whom you want to remove a schedule that is assigned to a service, and then click the Bandwidth & VPNs (or Bandwidth) or Firewall tab.
  2. On the line for the service select No Schedule, and then in the last column click the Status link.
  3. On the Subscription Status page, check the status of the sessions listed. If a session status is different from what it should be—for example if it is inactive instead of active—click Fix Problems to activate or deactivate the session.

See Monitoring the Status of Subscriptions.

Changing Schedules

You can change a schedule at any time. Before you delete a service schedule, however, you must make sure that the schedule is not being used by any service.

To modify a schedule:

  1. Click the Schedules tab; then on the line that describes the schedule that you want to change, click Edit.
  2. On the Schedule Edit page, change values using the field descriptions under Creating a Schedule, and click Apply.

To delete a schedule:

  1. Before you delete a schedule, make sure that none of the services reference this schedule:
  1. Click the Schedules tab; then on the line that describes the schedule that you want to delete, click Delete.

The Schedules page no longer lists the schedule.


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