Skip to content

Schedule a Warehouse

After creating a warehouse, you may schedule a start, stop, backup, or a scaling to economize on AU costs (see Warehouse Cost and Actian Units).

You may create one or multiple schedule events to stop, start, or scale a warehouse using these elements:

Action Recurrence Time Increment
• Start Warehouse
• Stop Warehouse
• Scale Warehouse
• Start Database
• Stop Database		 • Interval – event duration, from 0 hours, 15 minutes to 23 hours, 45 minutes
• Schedule Once – date and time to run an event
• Daily – every day of the week
• Every weekday (Mon–Fri)
• Weekly – particular weekdays
• Monthly – month 1–12 on a particular day of the month
• Custom (quartz cron expression—see Cron Expressions)		 Fifteen-minute increments, 12:00 AM – 11:45 PM

To manually scale a warehouse, see Scale a Warehouse.

To create or delete a schedule event, follow the appropriate procedure:

To create a start/stop schedule event

  1. In the Actian warehouses console, click the warehouse name to display its Warehouse Details page.

  2. In the Schedule row, click the Create Schedule icon:

    The Schedule Warehouse/Database Action dialog opens.

  3. Select an Action for the event:

    • Start Warehouse or Stop Warehouse

    • Start Database or Stop Database

  4. Choose a Recurrence interval:

    • Interval

    • Schedule Once

    • Daily

    • Every weekday (Mon–Fri)

    • Weekly

    • Monthly

    • Custom

  5. Select a Start time for the action:

Recurrence Setting
• Interval – event duration Select an interval from 0 hours, 15 minutes to 23 hours, 45 minutes
• Schedule Once – trigger a one-time event Select a day of the month and an execution time from 12:00 AM – 11:45 PM.
• Daily – every day of the week
• Every weekday (Mon–Fri)		 Select a start time from 12:00 AM – 11:45 PM.
• Weekly – particular weekdays 1.Select one or more weekdays for the action.2.Select a start time from 12:00 AM – 11:45 PM.
• Monthly – month 1–12 on a particular day of the month 1.Select a month for the action.2.Select a month day for the action.3.Select a start time from 12:00 AM – 11:45 PM.
• Custom Enter a custom cron expression in the field. See Cron Expressions.

  1. Click the Schedule button to create the action.

    The schedule action is added to the list at the bottom of the dialogue.

  2. Click the Add Schedule button to add another schedule event and repeat steps 3–6.

To create a warehouse scaling schedule event

  1. In the Actian warehouses console, click the warehouse name to display its Warehouse Details page.

  2. In the Schedule row, click the Create Schedule icon:

    The Schedule Warehouse Action dialog opens.

  3. Select an Action for the event: Scale Warehouse.

  4. Choose the number of Actian Units (AUs) to scale to. (Number of AUs available depends on your account quota.)

  5. Choose a Recurrence interval:

    • Interval

    • Daily

    • Schedule Once

    • Every weekday (Mon–Fri)

    • Weekly

    • Monthly

    • Custom

  6. Select a Start time for the action:

Recurrence Setting
• Interval (event duration) Select an interval from 0 hours, 15 minutes to 23 hours, 45 minutes
• Schedule Once – trigger a one-time event Select a day of the month and an execution time from 12:00 AM – 11:45 PM.
• Daily – every day of the week
• Every weekday (Mon–Fri)		 Select a start time from 12:00 AM – 11:45 PM.
• Weekly – particular weekdays 1.Select one or more weekdays for the action.2.Select a start time from 12:00 AM – 11:45 PM.
• Monthly – month 1–12 on a particular day of the month 1.Select a month for the action.2.Select a month day for the action.3.Select a start time from 12:00 AM – 11:45 PM.
• Custom Enter a custom cron expression in the field. See Cron Expressions.

  1. Click the Schedule button to create the action.

    The schedule action is added to the list at the bottom of the dialogue.

  2. Click the Add Schedule button to add another schedule event and repeat steps 3–6.

To delete a schedule event

  1. In the Actian warehouses console, click the warehouse name to display its Warehouse Details page.

  2. In the Schedule row, click the Create Schedule icon:

    The Schedule Warehouse/Database Action dialog opens.

  3. Scroll down to the list of schedule events.

  4. To search for a particular event by action or recurrence, enter text in the search field:

  5. When the schedule event is shown in the list, click the delete icon on its right:

  6. Confirm the deletion.

    The schedule event is removed from the events list.