📄️ Schedulers
Scheduler helps you to create and manage time bounded actions in Motadata. The scheduler is in the form of a calendar and shows you all the past, present and future jobs. The high level features of scheduler are:
📄️ Scheduler Options
Create Scheduler
📄️ Monitor Maintenance Job
This job is used to turn on/off the maintenance mode of monitors. Maintenance mode is highly useful when your monitors are scheduled for a planned maintenance (or planned down). The maintenance mode job will stop polling the monitors at your planned time and Motadata will not alert you about their unavailability.
📄️ NCM Report Job
The job generates the report of NCM Dashboard and send it as an email message. Motadata will send you an email with report as an attachment.
📄️ Motadata Report DB Archival Job
The report DB archival job takes the backup of the database at regular intervals for various data types like log, monitor metric, flow, audit, trap, and ncm. Once the backup is taken and stored, it can later be restored on the server if required. The job creates multiple files with *.tar extension.
📄️ Motadata Report DB Backup Job
The scheduler provides 2 types of backup: Incremental backup and full backup.
📄️ Motadata DR Backup Job
- DR Backup Job is useful in case of crash down of your system. We can call is as ‘Disaster Backup’. It is advised that this backup needs to be stored on a safe location where the data will remain untouched.
📄️ Business SLA Report Job
The job generates a report about the performance/health of the business service/SLA. This report help you to quickly analyze the SLA directly from email. Hence, you don’t need to login into the Motadata to see the performance of an SLA. Also, you can send the report to other stakeholders who has value in decision making and needs constant update on the SLA.
📄️ Motadata Full Text Data Retention Job
You can keep the useful raw logs and remove older logs from the Motadata server. The raw logs are stored in Motadata’s hard disk and prolonged dumping of logs consumes the space. These logs are different from the files of Motadata’s database. These logs are visible in Motadata through Search menu.
📄️ Report Job
The job generates the reports and send them as an email message. You can configure the scheduler to send multiple reports in one job. Motadata will send you a separate email for each report. These reports are the same reports that you see in the reports and basic reports section. You can use this scheduler to send a constant update to the stakeholders.
📄️ Auto Network Discovery
Auto network discovery will scan your network at regular intervals to find and provision new monitors. This feature is highly suitable if you have a distributed network and different people controls different segments in your network.
📄️ NCM Device Backup Job
NCM backup job takes the backup of the NCM devices automatically at regular intervals. The system compares the new backup with existing backup. If both the backup files are exactly same, Motadata updates the timestamp of the existing backup instead of creating a duplicate backup file. You can create a backup from here or you can create it from the NCM menu.
📄️ Monitor Polling Issue Report
The polling issue report is available in Motadata Health > Monitor Polling Issue. The scheduler sends you the email of the report. This report shows the list of all the monitors that Motadata discovered successfully failed to poll (from beginning of time to last poll).
📄️ Topology Builder Job
Topology builder job scraps the earlier topology diagram and creates a new one. This is useful when monitors in network are added/removed in random fashion. The topology diagram created by the job is out of any region/node (See Topology menu for details). However, if any monitor is already assigned to a region/node, the new diagram will not affect it.
📄️ Network Builder Job
Network builder job is the first step to create a topology. The job scans your network and identifies all the interfaces of the monitors in it. You should run this job only one time before creating the topology or adding a new device in the existing topology.
📄️ Motadata Data Retention Job
You can keep the useful monitor’s data and remove older historical records from the Motadata server. The historical data is stored in Motadata’s hard disk and prolonged accumulation consumes the space. Using this data, Motadata gives you analytics of your network. The action will be irreversible with no option to retrieve the data.
📄️ Motadata Config Backup Job
The config backup job creates a backup of the Motadata configuration files at regular intervals. This has following features:
📄️ Backup Encryption
For Backup Encryption Motadata provides system capability to encrypt the data to maintain integrity while creating a backup. The AES encryption algorithm is being used when creating encrypted backup file. System is doing Checksum for the backup file and maintain its internal file format.
📄️ Restore Decryption
The restore does not require any encryption parameters to specify at the time of restores. As part of restore, system is decrypting the back-up file while restoring. System has intelligence to consider backup file as corrupted and not to decrypt the backup file during restore if backup file is tampered in order to maintain integrity.