Agent scheduler¶
The OpenSVC agent embeds a scheduler. The node and each service has a private schedule.
Scheduler behaviour¶
The agent postinstall configures a system's scheduler job at a 1 minute period executing the nodemgr schedulers command. This schedulers action runs the OpenSVC agent scheduler for the node and each service.
For each task, the scheduler determines if the current time meets the task's schedule definition constraints. If all constraints are met, the task action is run in a subprocess and the last run timestamp is updated.
The schedule definition constraints are expressed as allowed timeranges and minimum period. Example: In 00:00-02:00@120, the timerange is from midnight to 2am, the period is 120 minuntes. Multiple <timerange>@<period> can be defined with the syntax ["00:00-02:00@120", "12:00-14:00@120"]
If an allowed timerange is longer than the system's schedule period, multiple consecutive scheduler run will meet the schedule timerange constraint. If the period is also met (the task has not run in the last <period> minutes), the scheduler rolls a dice and decides if the task is run now, or delayed to a next scheduler run. The probability of deciding to run augments linearly with the current time position in the timerange. For example, with a 00:00-02:00 timerange, at midnight the probability is around 10%. At 01:50 the probabilty is 100%.
This behaviour spreads the tasks execution on all nodes over the whole timerange length. As most tasks, induce communications with the collector, the collector load is leveled.
Any task (except sync tasks) execution in its subprocess is delayed by a random few seconds to level collector load spikes caused by time-synchronized nodes actions being validated at the same time. For example, on a 1000 agent population with pushasset schedule set to 00:00-02:00@120, ~90 agents will execute the action at 00:00. The random delay ensures the collector won't receive all 90 data payloads at the same second.
Display the schedules¶
Node schedule¶
$ sudo nodemgr print schedule
action last run config parameter schedule definition
------ -------- ---------------- -------------------
auto_reboot 2016-02-23 16:50:01 reboot.schedule 16:00-17:00@1 sat:last,tue-mon:last * %2+1,feb-apr
auto_rotate_root_pw 2015-02-25 17:17:17 rotate_root_pw.schedule -
...
The scheduled tasks can be configured in <OSVCETC>/node.conf with a configlet like:
[<section>]
<parameter> = <definition>
The 'config parameter' column in the print schedule output is formatted as:
<section>.<parameter>
And the current definition, explicit or implicit is visible in the 'schedule definition' column. A dash character means never scheduled.
The nodemgr command executed when the schedule constraints are met is displayed in the 'action' column.
The supported schedules are:
- Node inventoring tasks : pushasset, pushpatch, pushpkg, pushdisks
- Node performance metrics inventoring : pushstats
- Node performance metrics collection : collect_stats
- Node file content tracking task : sysreport
- Node configuration audit and/or remediation task : compliance_auto
- Health checking task : checks
- Scheduled node reboot task : auto_reboot
- Scheduled root password rotation task : auto_rotate_root_pw
- Execution of nodemgr actions queued by the collector : dequeue_actions
- SAN switches inventoring tasks : pushbrocade
- Storage arrays inventoring tasks : pushcentera, pushdcs, pushemcvnx, pusheva, pushfreenas, pushhds, pushhp3par, pushibmds, pushibmsvc, pushnecism, pushnetapp, pushsym, pushvioserver
- Backup servers saves index inventoring tasks : pushnsr
Service schedule¶
$ sudo svcmgr -s deb1.opensvc.com print schedule
action last run config parameter schedule definition
------ -------- ---------------- -------------------
compliance_auto 2016-02-24 03:00:08 DEFAULT.comp_schedule 00:00-06:00@361
push_env 2016-02-24 01:50:04 DEFAULT.push_schedule 00:00-06:00@361
push_service_status 2016-02-24 08:00:07 DEFAULT.mon_schedule @9
sync_all 2016-02-24 04:01:08 sync#2.schedule 00:01-02:00@120
sync_all 2016-02-24 04:01:08 sync#1.schedule 04:00-06:00@121
sync_all 2016-02-24 04:01:08 sync#i0.schedule 04:00-06:00@121
...
The scheduled tasks can be configured in <OSVCETC>/<svcname>.env with a configlet like:
[<section>]
<parameter> = <definition>
The 'config parameter' column in the print schedule output is formatted as:
<section>.<parameter>
And the current definition, explicit or implicit is visible in the 'schedule definition' column. A dash character means never scheduled.
The svcmgr -s <svcname> command executed when the schedule constraints are met is displayed in the 'action' column.
The supported schedules are:
- Service configuration audit and/or remediation task : compliance_auto
- Service configuration inventoring task : push_env
- Service status inventoring task : push_service_status
- Service sync resources actions : sync_all
Schedule definition¶
The complete and up-to-date schedule syntax reference is available in <OSVCDOC>/node.conf template file.
[!] <timeranges> [<days> [<weeks> [<months>]]]
!
desc: exclusion pattern. ommiting the ! implies an inclusion
pattern
<timeranges> := <timerange>[,<timerange>]
<timerange> := <begin>:<end>@<interval>
<begin> <end> := <hour>:<minute>
<interval>
type: integer
unit: minutes
<days> := <day>[-<day>][,<day>[-<day>]]
<day> := <day_of_week>[:<day_of_month>]
<day_of_week>
* iso week day format
type: integer between 0 and 6
* literal format
type: string in ("mon", "tue", "wed", "thu", "fri", "sat",
"sun", "monday", "tuesday", "wednesday", "thursday",
"friday", "saturday", "sunday")
<day_of_month> := <literal> | +<nth> | -<nth> | <nth>
<nth>
type: integer
<literal>
type: string in ("first", "1st", "second", "2nd", "third",
"3rd", "fourth", "4th", "fifth", "5th", "last")
<weeks> := <week>[-<week>][,<week>[-<week>]]
<week>
type: integer between 1 and 53
<months> := <monthrange>[,<monthrange>]
<monthrange> := <month>[-<month>] | <month_filter>
<month>
* numeric month format
type: integer between 1 and 12
* literal format
type: string in ("jan", "feb", "mar", "apr", "may", "jun",
"jul", "aug", "sep", "oct", "nov", "dec", "january",
"february", "march", "april", "may", "june", "july",
"august", "september", "october", "november",
"december")
<month_filter> := %<modulo>[+<shift>]
<modulo>
type: integer
<shift>
type: integer
Schedule testing¶
Executing the scheduler code file triggers a test routine.
$ python <OSVCLIB>/rcScheduler.py
passed : test '2015-02-27 10:00' in schedule '' expected False => result False (no schedule)
passed : test '2015-02-27 10:00' in schedule '@0' expected False => result False (interval set to 0)
passed : test '2015-02-27 10:00' in schedule '*@0' expected False => result False (interval set to 0)
passed : test '2015-02-27 10:00' in schedule '*' expected True => result True
passed : test '2015-02-27 10:00' in schedule '*@61' expected True => result True
...
You can add your own test in the tests structure at the end of this file.
tests = [
("", "2015-02-27 10:00", False),
("@0", "2015-02-27 10:00", False),
("*@0", "2015-02-27 10:00", False),
("*", "2015-02-27 10:00", True),
...
]
List entries fields:
- 0: A schedule definition to test
- 1: The simulated current time
- 2: The expected result
Examples¶
Never schedule
Either "", or
@0Always schedule
*Schedule every 60 minutes
@59Schedule at first occasion after 9am
09:00Schedule every hour between midnight and 6am
00:00-06:00@59Schedule once between midnight and 2am
00:00-02:00@120Schedule once between midnight and 2am every last day of month
00:00-02:00@120 *:lastor00:00-02:00@120 *:-1Schedule once between midnight and 2am every last friday of month
00:00-02:00@120 fri:lastor00:00-02:00@120 fri:-1Schedule once between midnight and 2am every week day
00:00-02:00@120 mon-friSchedule once between midnight and 2am every week day from january to february
00:00-02:00@120 mon-fri * jan-febSchedule once between midnight and 2am every odd day (1, 3, 5)
00:00-02:00@120 *:%2+1Schedule once between midnight and 2am every monday of even weeks
00:00-02:00@120 mon %2