Section 2, Task 4: Set Up Your Production Job
Action 2: Schedule the production job(s)
  1. For Cabletron SPECTRUM, schedule Spectrum Data Export to occur automatically.

  2. Edit your crontab file to execute your scripts that process, reduce and report on the data.

    1. Retrieve your current cron file.

      You will be adding jobs to your crontab file. Retrieve your current crontab file with the following command:

      crontab -l > my_crontab

    2. Edit my_crontab file.

      Add the following lines to my_crontab:

      # Backup your pdb at 00:04 every night
      04 00 * * * cp -r /u/me/pdb-production /u/me/pdb-backup 2>&1 | mail your_userid
      # Run CxPROCES and CPREDUCE at 00:05 every night
      05 00 * * * /tmp/      pr_script 2>&1 | mail your_userid
      # Daily reports each morning at 03:05
      05 03 * * * /tmp/      csbatrep -d 2>&1 | mail your_userid
      # Weekly reports each Sunday morning at 03:20
      20 03 * * 0 /tmp/      csbatrep -w 2>&1 | mail your_userid
      # Monthly reports each first day of month at 03:35
      35 03 1 * * /tmp/      csbatrep -m 2>&1 | mail your_userid

      where your_userid is your e-mail address, pr_script is the script that processes and reduces raw data into your PDB, and csbatrep runs the reports on the data in the PDB.

    3. Replace your current cron file with the one that you just edited.

      Issue the following command:

      crontab my_crontab