Submitting a service

Ops Center Automator User Guide

Version
10.8.x
File Size
3.6 MB
Audience
anonymous
Part Number
MK-99AUT001-14

Submitting a service creates and runs the tasks associated with the service, either immediately or on the schedule you defined. Some services require that you provide some of the parameter values when the service is submitted. All services need for you to configure task settings (for example, the task name and schedule) when the service is submitted.

  • If the service is in Release status, you must have the Submit (or higher) role.
  • If the service is in Maintenance status, you must have the Admin, Develop, or Modify role.
  1. On the Services tab, select the service that you want to submit, and in the service preview pane, click Create Request.
  2. In the Submit Service Request window, in the Settings pane, configure the volume, host, and task settings required by the service.
    Note: In Task Settings, a schedule is interpreted as a server time. Be aware if the server is in a different time zone from the client.
  3. Click Submit to submit the service immediately, or Submit & View Task to submit the service and go to the Tasks tab.
  4. Verify that the tasks that are associated with the submitted service are listed on the Tasks tab.
  5. (Optional) Monitor the task status.
    Note: You can run only 10 plug-ins concurrently by default. After you reach that limit, the next plug-in waits until another one finishes. To change the maximum number of concurrent runs, see "Changing the system configuration" in the Hitachi Ops Center Automator Installation and Configuration Guide.

Effect on scheduling when switching between standard and daylight savings time (U.S and Canada only)

When a server is in a region of the world that has adopted daylight savings time, you must understand how the scheduling time is affected when the system switches between standard and daylight savings time. Daylight savings time begins at 2:00 AM (Central Time) on the 2nd Sunday of March and ends at 2:00 AM on the 1st Sunday of November.

To accommodate switching between standard time to daylight savings time, the time between 2:00 AM to 2:59 AM is omitted and any services that are scheduled during standard time will instead start at 2:00 to 2:59 AM daylight savings time.

Conversely, when switching back from daylight savings to standard time, the time between 1:00 AM and 1:59 is increased so any services scheduled to run during daylight savings time are ignored (not processed twice) according to the original schedule, but are run when the time is switched back from daylight savings to standard time.

Services that are scheduled outside of these switching time are not affected and are run according to the time plan that is currently in effect for the server.