Integration Manager supports both Interval and Cron expression scheduling. The powerful Quartz scheduler engine is used to manage scheduling and schedule triggers.

Interval scheduling is a convenient way to set up an integration to run every X hour(s) and/or X minute(s). The smallest unit for interval scheduling is 1 minute.

Cron expression scheduling is a much more powerful and flexible scheduling mechanism than interval scheduling. It uses a special syntax to specify the exact second, minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week, and/or year that a schedule will run.

A simple example is a cron expression representing a schedule that will run at 1:25 p.m. on the first day of each month:

You can use cron to customize exactly when your integration jobs will run.

Cron scheduling in increments of less than 1 minute is disabled by default. You may enable increments down to the second by adding the following entry to your application.properties file (requires Integration Manager restart):

A quick cron expression tutorial provided by Quartz is here: http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/documentation/quartz-2.3.0/tutorials/crontrigger.html.