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What You Can Do With Schedule Manager

You can define one or more schedules to the Schedule Manager; however, only one schedule is active at a time. Note that it is possible to merge multiple schedules into one schedule. In each schedule, define one or more periods of time by date, by day of the week, and by time of day. To schedule the desired state of a System State Manager resource, link both it and its desired state (ON or OFF) to a period of time in a schedule. After you tell the Schedule Manager what schedule to activate (or load), the Schedule Manager determines what periods in the schedule are active and sets the scheduled desired state of any resources linked to those periods. This process is called reset processing. The time of day when a scheduled period starts or ends is a time of possible change in desired states, and the Schedule Manager automatically performs reset processing at those times. To manually request a Schedule Manager reset, use the Schedule Manager SSM@OVER sample command rule or use the Schedule Manager API.

Note: The Schedule Manager stores period and schedule definition data in the database of the Relational Data Framework (RDF). It uses an internal schedule called ACTIVE to set the desired state of resources under System State Manager control. You cannot edit the ACTIVE schedule, but you can create a new schedule or edit an existing schedule, and then load it as the ACTIVE schedule.

The remainder of this chapter provides information on how to do the following:

• Add, copy, delete, edit, print, or rename a schedule
• Add, delete, edit, or rename a period in a schedule
• Link or unlink resources and periods
• Synchronize a schedule with System State Manager resource table updates
• Merge the information from two schedules into a single schedule
• Load a schedule to make it the ACTIVE schedule
• View or print schedule period overlaps and conflicts
• View or print the schedule state of system resources
• Override the ACTIVE schedule
• Use the Schedule Manager application program interface (API)

Note: Most Schedule Manager functions can operate using schedule data on any MSF-connected system.