Scheduling data collection jobs

You can schedule your data collection jobs to run in multiple intervals or times throughout the day.

1. Open the Data Collection Jobs page by going to the left-pane of the Data Collection Component application, under the Data Collection section, and click the Data Collection Jobs link.
2. On the Data Collection Jobs page, choose a data collection group that you want to schedule the jobs:
   • ODS Data Collection
   • Data-Mart Data Collection
   • Licenses Data Collection
3. Click the Schedule link available on the right-side of your selected data collection group.
4. In the Edit schedule window, use the drop-down menu on the upper right to select one of the following schedule options:

   Interval Schedule

   1. By default the Enabled checkbox is selected to turn on the schedule. However, if you need to temporarily turn off the schedule, clear the Enabled checkbox, such as when performing a server rename. For more information, see Impact of server rename on the Data Collection Component.
   2. Under the Interval group, you can specify to collect data every X number of minutes, by typing a number in the Current time interval field. The minimum number of minutes is 5.
   3. Under the Week Days group, you can specify to collect data on certain days.
      • To select the multiple days of the week, press and hold down the Ctrl key and click the days of the week you want to collect data. For example, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
      • To select all the days of the week to collect data, click All.
   4. After you specify the interval schedule, click OK in the Edit schedule window.
      

   Daily Schedule

   1. By default the Enabled checkbox is selected to turn on the schedule. However, if you need to temporarily turn off the schedule, clear the Enabled checkbox, such as when performing a server rename. For more information, see Impact of server rename on the Data Collection Component.
   2. Under the Times group, you can specify more than one particular time of the day that you want to collect data. For example, run a 9:00 AM, noon, and before end of day 4:00 PM data collection job throughout the day.
      1. Click Create Time each time you want to add a time of the day entry.
      2. In the first drop-down menu, specify the hour of the day in a 24-hour clock.
      3. In the second drop-down menu, specify the minutes of the selected hour.
      4. To remove a time, click the Remove time icon that is next to the time entry that you want to remove.
         
   3. Under the Week Days group, you can specify to collect data on certain days at the previously specified times of the day.
      • To select the multiple days of the week, press and hold down the Ctrl key and click the days of the week you want to collect data. For example, Monday, through Friday.
      • To select all the days of the week to collect data, click All.
   4. After you specify the daily schedule, click OK in the Edit schedule window.
      

5. To apply schedule settings, you must click Save in the Data Collection Jobs page.
6. To remove a schedule setting:
   Note:

   1. On the Data Collection Jobs page, choose a data collection group that you want to remove the schedule setting:
      • ODS Data Collection
      • Data-Mart Data Collection
      • Licenses Data Collection
   2. Click the Unschedule link available on the right-side of your selected data collection group.
   3. To apply the removal of the schedule settings, you must click Save available in the Data Collection Jobs page.