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Enable and Configure the Scheduled Task for Reservations

Enabling and configuring the scheduled task for reservations is a required task to set up the integration between CA Service Catalog and Reservation Manager. The scheduled task checks the job statuses of pending reservation requests in Reservation Manager and synchronizes these statuses with CA Service Catalog.

To enable and configure the scheduled task for reservations

1. On the CA Service Catalog GUI, click Home, Administration, Tools

   The Tools page appears, with Events Types from Events-Rules-Actions in focus.

2. On the top left side of the screen under the tabs, under the Menu heading, click Scheduler.

   The Scheduler page appears, displaying the existing scheduled tasks.

3. Check the job status task for Reservation Manager; it is named Reservation Manager Job Status Synchronizing and click the Edit (pencil) icon.

   The Scheduled Tasks Setting page for this task appears.

4. Do the following:
   • In the Status drop-down list, select Enabled.

     This setting enables the task, so that the task runs.

   • Set dates and times in the Valid From and Valid Until fields.

     This setting specifies the duration of the task in minutes, days, weeks, months, and years.

   • Select the value you want in the Recur drop-down list and define the recurrence rule in the Rule field.

     Together, these setting specify the frequency (how often) the scheduled task runs to check for the job statuses of pending reservations.

     For example, if you select Minutes in the Recur field and 15 in the Rule field, the task runs every 15 minutes; these are the default settings. Similarly, if you select Hourly in the Recur field and 1 in the Rule field, the task runs every hour, at the minute marker you specify, such as 0, 15, or 30 minutes past the hour.

5. Click OK to save your selections.

The scheduled task for reservations is enabled, using the configuration settings that you specified.