Dist Agent Question - Scheduling agents off-hours

HFCDev

Hi, 

 Something I think I need to do with the app I'm working on is force it to run off hours if so directed by a config setting.  I can see you can set the initiate date of the task to be some future date (allowing you to schedule the task off hours).  Assuming you have a job chain which needs to process 100s of millions of objects, and it could be all night, how can I prevent the Nth job in the chain (small chunks of 50,000 or fewer objects) from running if 8 AM rolls around?  My goal is to be able to have a job chain schedule itself for off hours, then if it's still running when business resumes, to shut down and reschedule itself.

Is this even remotely possible?

-Hugh

David Templeton

Simple answer is no, only the activation date is available but doesn’t guarantee when it runs.  We are currently working on scheduling outages for workers so they can be turned off during peak hours and brought alive during off-peak.  Now, if this of interest to anyone, please speak up so the PM get more voices behind himJ

 

For the job of doing something and not have it run during the day, that is not the design for this kind of framework since the complexity would be crazy. J  Since the framework expects task to be fairly generic then controlling the workers is a better approach for controlling load. 

 

Also, note if the 50k objects you are wanting to process is going to be long time then break it up further.  In reality, processing a 100 million object wil take time no matter what. 

 

David