Schedule not continue after reboot

Jonny · Post by **Jonny** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:47 am

My company use Macro Scheduler 7.4 in a server to check somothing and send alert email to manager account every 5 minutes repeatly.
The server rebooted every morning to keep the environment clean. But sometime after machine rebooted, it missed the next scheduled time, than the task will never run in rest of the day until some one adjust the time to future time. This problem bother me for a long time still not solved.
Is anyone face this problem? I search the forum with "schedule" keyword and found some similar problem. In one reply suggest to enhance the Macro Scheduler can set the schedule in the script may be a solution.

Jonny · Post by **Jonny** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 3:33 am

I had solved this problem by using Advance Option "Run Immediately if Schedule was Missed" instead of "Run Immediately Anyway".
The difference of these two options is the second one did not forward the schedule to future time but remained unchanged after the task run.

Jonny · Post by **Jonny** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 1:07 am

I found another symptom even I enabled the "Run Immediately if schedule was Missed".
I modified my script and set the next schedule time at said 14:00. The scheule run repeatly every 5 minutes normally in that day. My machine rebooted at 3:00am next day than the script run immediately at 3:00am but the next schedule time became 14:00,
This is not what I want, it shoud be 3:05am isn't it ?. Is this a bug or I did something wrong?
I suggest to add another field for user to specify the start time after rebooted not just use the next time for that purpose.