Adding Inclusion Period to a Schedule

You can define a period when you want the system to apply the rulebases and rules whenever the conditions are met.

Procedure

1. In the Hawk Console, open the Hawk Agent page for which you want to add the inclusion period of a schedule.
For steps, see Viewing the Agent Details.
2. In the Agent page, select the Schedules tab.

All the schedules for the Hawk agent are displayed in the left panel of the tab. For details, see Schedules Tab.

3. In the Schedules tab, select the schedule for which you want to add the inclusion period.

The list of inclusion periods and exclusion periods are displayed in the right panel.

4. On the left panel, click the Add icon for the Inclusion Periods.

The Period Details window opens to define a new period.

5. In the Period Details window, define the following parameters in the inclusion period of a schedule:
— Time of Day - Select the starting and ending time interval for the period. If you want to specify multiple time intervals for the schedule, you must add multiple Inclusion periods.
— Day of Month - Select the dates for the schedule to be active. Click Select All to select all days of the month.
— Week Day of Month - Select the days of the week and weeks in the month for the period.
— Month of Year - Select the month of the year for the period. Click Select All to select all months of the year.

The Week Day of Month and Day of Month selections must overlap in order for a day to be selected.

6. Click Save.

Result

The new inclusion period is listed under the Inclusion Periods list for the schedule.

Example

For example, the following figure shows the selection for the inclusion period of a Weekend schedule, where the applied rules and rulebases are active on every Sunday for 24 hours.

Figure 48: Weekend Schedule Inclusion Period

What to do Next

• (Optional)If you want to define a period when you want the system to ignore the rulebases and rules, add an exclusion period for the schedule. For details, see Adding Exclusion Period to a Schedule.
• Deploy the schedule to the Hawk agent for applying it to all rules and rulebases of the Hawk agent. For details, see Deploying a Schedule to the Associated Hawk Agent.