Adding a new scheduled task in the calendar

Before creating a scheduled task, it is necessary to differentiate the two types of task.

Tasks with a duration less than a day and eventually recurrent
Tasks with a duration greater than a day (24 hours) and eventually recurrent (All Day Task)

In the calendar, task duration of more than 24 hours are at the top (red task in the example below) while the tasks of less than 24 hours (green task in the example below) appear in the hourly detailed area.

task duration

Creation fo a new scheduled task

There are 2 ways to create a new scheduled task in the Task Planner.

Select a range of hours with the left mouse button and a mouse move in the Daily view and use the Add Task button. The range is then automatically adjusted.
Double click on any blank space in any views.

Beware that if you are in the Weekly view, the Monthly view or the Yearly view, this action creates a All Day Task element by default.

Beware that if you are in the Daily view or Work day view the time period is one hour by default.

Modify a scheduled task

Modifying a scheduled task is possible by selecting the task in the calendar and by clicking on the Task Properties button.

A double click on the task in the calendar also opens the dialog box Edit Scheduled Task.

If the task has been scheduled to be recurring, this intermediate dialog box below appears.

edit recurrence serie

If you select Open this occurrence only this instance of this task for the selected day will be changed thus creating an exception.

If you select Open the series all the occurrences of this task will change.

Edition of a scheduled task

In both cases, creation or modification, the Edit Scheduled Task dialog box below is displayed

Edit Scheduled Task

First fill the subject field with a text describing the goal of this new task in the calendar.

Select a task Expression. The Task Expression defines the action(s) performed in the period(s) of the task.

Label: Color uses to sort the usage of the task in the calendar

Running Mode Area

The Running Mode area of scheduled task editor offers 4 choices of operating mode:

Scheduled task

Disabled: The task will not be executed
Always: The task will be repeated continuously
One Time: The task will be executed once
Time X: The task will be repeated every X time intervals

The Send Event checkbox activates the sending of a LoriotPro Event to select from the available Event list.

The Start Time and End Time fields define the date and time of start and end of the period of execution of the scheduled task.

Task lenght

The checkbox All day task imposes to the task to be active the whole day (24 hours). She appears at the top out of the time zone in the Daily view (Daily).

CAUTION: If a scheduled task covers several days, creating a recurrence may eventually generate multiple execution of it.

Select a task Expression

In the Edit Scheduled Task dialog, the Task Expression field defines the action performed in (the) time (s) associated (s).

Click on the Wizard to open the Task Edit Expression Wizard below:

task planner expression

The dialog offer 2 ways for task selection.

Expression Wizard : allows to select an action that is applied to a single object
Expression applied to a Group of Hosts: The task will be run over a list of selected Hosts.

Description of the Tasks

	GLOBAL	Description
040	Start Polling process	Start the Polling process of LoriotPro
041	Stop Polling process	Stop the Polling process of LoriotPro
042	Start Discover Process	Start the Discover process of LoriotPro
043	Stop Discover Process	Stop the Discover process of LoriotPro
044	Start Audit Process	Stop the Audit process
045	Stop Audit Process	Stop the Audit process
	Start Plugin
	Stop Plugin
	Generate a HTML report	Collect a WEB page on a remote server with its url
	Send an EMAIL	Send a email to somebody
	Send a SMS	Send a SMS to somebody (require the SMS Dispatch Manager)
	Send Event	Send a LoriotPro event to itself or to another LoriotPro
	Send SYSLOG	Send a syslog to a syslog server (LoriotPro is a syslog server)
	Show an ActiveView	Display on of the ActiveView
	Create a Windows POPUP	Display a windows popup
012	Run a Windows program	Start a Windows program
010	Check WEB server running state (get a Web page)	Check if a WEB server is alive
011	Run a single LUA script	Launch a script LUA
	Run a single LUA script over a group of hosts	Launch a script LUA over a grpup of hosts
100	Stop LoriotPro and quit	Stop LoriotPro and quit the application

	HOST checks & properties
	Check PING statut (on % of last 100 requests)
	Check SNMP statut (on % of last 100 requests)
	Check SNMP value
	Set SNMP value
	Disable all polling	Disable the PING and SNMP availability polling
	Enable all polling	Enable the PING and SNMP availability polling
	Disable the Ping polling of a host	Disable the PING availability polling
	Enable the Ping polling of a host	Enable the PING availability polling
	Disable the SNMP polling of a host	Disable the SNMP availability polling
	Enable the SNMP polling of a host	Enable the availability polling
	Disable an audit process of a host	Disable the audit process of a host
	Enable an audit process of a host	Enable the audit process of a host


	EVENTS
013	Disable all filter/actions of all Events	Désactive tous les filtres de tous les Events
014	Enable all filter/actions of all Events	Active tous les filtres de tous les Events
015	Disable all filter/actions of an Event	Désactive tous les filtres d’un Event
016	Enable all filter/actions of an Event	Active tous les filtres d’un Event
017	Disable a filter/action of an Event	Désactive un filtre d’un Event
018	Enable a filter/action of an Event	Active un filtre d’un Event
	Acknowledge all counters of all Events	Acquitte tous les compteurs de tous les Events
030	Acknowledge the counter of an Event	Acquitte le compteur d’un Event
032	Acknowledge Event filter/action	Remize à zéro du compteur d’un filtre d’Event
	TRAPS
020	Disable all filters/actions of all Traps	Désactive tous les filtres de tous les Traps
021	Enable all filters/actions of all Traps	Active tous les filtres de tous les Traps
022	Disable all filters/actions of a Trap	Désactive tous les filtres d’un Trap
023	Enable all filters/actions of a Trap	Active tous les filtres d’un Trap
024	Disable a filter/action of a Trap	Désactive un filtre d’un Trap
025	Enable a filter/action of a trap	Active un filtre d’un Trap

031	Acknowledge the counter of all filters/actions of all Traps	Remize à zéro de tous les compteurs de tous les filtres de Traps
033	Acknowledge the counter of a filter/action of a Trap	Remize à zéro de tous le compteur d’un filtre de Trap

	SYSLOG
	Acknowledge all Syslog

	Global Object
	Stop Global Object

Expression applied to a Group of Hosts

Expression applied to a Group of Hosts use LUA scripts to perform a batch processing on a host selection.

By clicking on a Bulk Expression the following dialog box is displayed.

hots list selection

The Yes option opens a dialog for the selection of a list (LUA file) previously created with the button Save Selection as LUA of the dialog box used for the creation of hosts list.

The No option opens the dialog box below used for the creation of hosts list.

host list creation

When clicking on a Bulk Expression a dialog box is displayed. It is necessary to select at least one host or more with a drag and drop from the directory on the left toward the host list on the right.

When the list is complete, quit with the Save and Quit button. A dialog box opens to enter the name of the file containing the list of hosts for this treatment.

The created list can be saved with Save Selection as LUA for future use. This avoids in the case of complex selections having to recreate the list every time.
Hosts lists are saved in LUA script file in the directory /bin/config/taskplanner/hostlist/.