Event Suspend and Resume

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Event Suspend and Resume

To prevent an Event from triggering, you can instruct the server to suspend it. The Event remains suspended until you resume it. When you want the Event to resume its execution, you instruct the server to resume it.

Note: An Event can be automatically suspended and resumed at certain times. For more information about automatically suspending and resuming an Event, see the Define Perspective Help.

The server handles suspended Events as follows:

For scheduled Events—The server does not schedule the Event until the Event is resumed. The server ignores any missed scheduled executions while the Event is suspended.
For monitor Events—The server does not trigger the Event until the Event is resumed. The agent monitoring for the Event stops monitoring while the Event is suspended.
For manual Events—you cannot trigger the Event until the Event is resumed.

Note: If you want the server to trigger missed Event executions when the Event is eligible for execution, hold the Event instead. When you release the Event, the server triggers the last missed execution while the Event was on hold. If an Event is both suspended and held at its scheduled or expected execution time, the server ignores the on hold state and considers the Event suspended.

Example: Suspend and Resume an Event

Consider the following scenario:

On August 2nd at 3 p.m., you are told that the ACCNT.PAYROLL Event should not process until August 23rd. This Event is usually processed at 4 p.m. each day.
You suspend ACCNT.PAYROLL.
On August 2nd at 4 p.m., the server does not process ACCNT.PAYROLL because it is suspended.
Every day after August 2nd, at 4 p.m. the server sees that ACCNT.PAYROLL is suspended and does not process this Event.
On August 23rd, prior to 4 p.m., you resume ACCNT.PAYROLL as requested.
On August 23rd at 4 p.m., the server finds that the Event has been resumed, so it processes the Event as scheduled.

More information:

Suspend an Event

Resume a Suspended Event