What is the best way of scheduling a PowerShell script in Azure? Should I create a VM and schedule it via a task scheduler. Or is there any better way?
I have a PowerShell script that I extracts data from audit log and reports some information. Thank you.
You should use Azure Automation. Its easy to use and you can run jobs for 500 minutes for free (every month).
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We are trying to queue from code a build but that should not run instantly but in the evening as our build pipeline is quite free in the evening and this job does not need to be run right away.
We are queuing around 20 or those builds on a daily basis and right now it is unfortunately blocking other builds. I know that we can use build priorities but it is not good enough as the build we want to "postpone" takes quite a long time and would block other builds if it would be started before the high importance build.
We also saw that it is possible to create a schedule but this sounds more like a build that should reoccur where we need the build to run only once.
There is a work-around to achieve running a build once at an appointed time using Azure CLI and CMD scheduled task. You can try to follow below steps.
1, you need to install Azure CLI. You can follow the steps in this blogs to get started with Azure CLI. [blog]:https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/using-azure-devops-from-the-command-line/
2, Create a CMD script like below and save it to your local disk, For more information about az pipelines commands go to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/ext/azure-devops/pipelines/build?view=azure-cli-latest#ext-azure-devops-az-pipelines-build-queue
az pipelines build queue --definition-name your-build-definition-name -o table
3,create a scheduled CMD task script using schtask.exe like below example, for more information visit https://www.windowscentral.com/how-create-task-using-task-scheduler-command-prompt
schtasks /create /tn "give-your-task-a-name" /tr "the-location-of-the-scripts-file-you-created-in-previous-step" /sc ONCE /st specify-the-time-to-run-your-build
You can save this script to your local disk too, Next time you can just run this scripts when you want to schedule your build to run in the evening.
Hope above steps can help you, This workaround seems tedious and need a little effort. But it is an once and for all work.
Azure Devops: Queue a build to run in the evening
Trigger build only once is not available for now. As you saw, there only as working days, time and time zone for schedule.
There has an user voice Scheduled builds - More flexible timing configuration which suggest more flexible time configuration including. You can vote and follow up for this user voice.
As the comment on that thread, we could Use cron syntax to specify schedules in a YAML file. As test, we can get a more detailed timing configuration, but we still could not schedule the build to run only once.
As workaround, we could schedule the build on a certain day of the week, after schedule build completed, Then we could disable the schedule manually or using the tool Azure DevOps CLI.
Hope this helps.
I have an ETL talend job which works on manual run button click. i want to automate this job daily at particular time with out any human interaction. ETL talend tool is installed in windows 10 machine.
Check this link shedule talend job on daily basis in windows
Note: You'll get a detailed explaination of how to build an autonomus job and how to schedule it using the standard windows tasks scheduler.
Informatica Workflow Scheduling with Autosys.
I am trying to understand more about the Informatica Workflow Scheduling with Autosys.
Assume I have an Informatica workflow wf_test and a UNIX script say test.sh with pmcmd command to run this workflow. Also, I wrote a JIL
(test.jil) for Autosys to schedule my test.sh. at daily 10:00 PM.
How exactly Autosys kick-off workflow wf_test at the specified schedule?
Can anyone shed some light about the communication between Autosys and Informatica?
Do we need to have both Informatica and Autosys server installed on the same server?
Is there any agent or service needs be present in-between Autosys and Informatica to happen this possible?
Additionally, can we directly give informatica details to Autosys without any script?
Many Thanks
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How exactly Autosys kick-off workflow wf_test at the specified schedule?
Autosys is a scheduling tool. An autosys job keep checking every 5 seconds, if any job is scheduled to run, based on the jil. When the time comes and the condition satisfied, it will run the given command on the given host. It could be a pmcmd command or any shell script.
Can anyone shed some light about the communication between Autosys and Informatica?
The communication should be between Autosys Server and the server where Informatica is installed. Read this article. Additionally check if your autosys engineering team on steps to implement the same in your project/environment.
Do we need to have both Informatica and Autosys server installed on the same server?
Definately not. It should be separated. But the connectivity should be established.
Is there any agent or service needs be present in-between Autosys and Informatica to happen this possible?
Yes, Read the article given in point 2.
Additionally, can we directly give informatica details to Autosys without any script?
Yes. You can mentioned the whole pmcmd command.
As Autosys is scheduling tool , it will trigger command at specified time mentioned in the Job jil , the important part here is , we also mention the machine name where we want to execute that particular command.
So to answer your question, Autosys and Informatica can be on different servers , provided Autosys agent is configured on Informatica server and the Informatica machine/server details are configured in Autosys.(its like creating a machine on Autosys similiar to creating Global variable or a Job)
As we are running our workflows through shell scripts using pmcmd command , and not to mention Autosys and Informatica are on different servers, there might be way you can directly call Workflows from Autosys but that will make things complicated when you're working at large scale calling 1000s of workflows, Instead having a generic script to call pmcmd which can utilised by multiple workflows seems an easier option.
All Autosys does is "run a command at a specified time" in this case. It's completely unaware of Informatica. It doesn't need to be on the same server as there simply is no communication between them.
All it needs, is the access to the test.sh script, wherever it is. And this, in turn, needs to be able to run the pmcmd utility. So in most basic setup, the Informatica >client< with the pmcmd could be on the same server with Autosys. Informatica Server just needs to be reachable to pmcmd.
I would suggest you to schedule the jobs using the in-built scheduler service,available from 10.x version. You don't have to even write a pmcmd command to trigger the workflow.
I want to schedule an etl job file (.vbs) in Tivoli. I am able to schedule it in Windows task Scheduler. As I have never tried my hands on Tivoli. Can anyone help me on this ?
Thanks in advance.
To start a .vbs from command line, you should run cscript <script>.vbs.
A TWS job running cscript <script>.vbs should address your scenario.
If your ETL is based on MS-SQL you can also look at Database jobs running on dynamic agents.
When I try to start a process using Start-Process on Azure Automation, it doesn't run and remains Idle. Is it possible to run processes on Azure Automation?
There are 2 ways to run Azure Automation jobs - in Azure workers and in Hybrid workers on your premises. I suppose you are trying to run a job on a Hybrid worker, so you should be able to start a process on the machine. There are some security restrictions on the processes with GUI, so you will not be able to see GUI for your process, but for the process per-se - it will be created, I just tried it myself:
start-process
To get more information on running jobs in Azure, please refer to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/automation-starting-a-runbook/
Detailed article about running jobs on Hybrid Workers is here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/automation-hybrid-runbook-worker/