topic Re: cron job not working in Alerting

cron job not working

logloganathan — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 10:27:52 GMT

i want to setup a alert for every hour in splunk but not at 2 am.
i used below cron expression but it not work

0 0 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 * * *

it produces a error while saving so it used expression like

0 0-1 * * *

then i created another alert and provide expression like

0 3-23 * * *

is there any other way ? please suggest.

Re: cron job not working

damien_chillet — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:04:53 GMT

Try 0 0,1,3-23 * * *

Re: cron job not working

logloganathan — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:31:13 GMT

its not working..not able to save

Re: cron job not working

damien_chillet — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:35:28 GMT

I managed to schedule a search with with that cron on my instance...
Can you provide the error message?

Re: cron job not working

p_gurav — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:40:59 GMT

Can you try :

0 0-1,3-23 * * *

Re: cron job not working

logloganathan — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 13:11:18 GMT

its not working...same result...again not able to save

Re: cron job not working

logloganathan — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:39:06 GMT

i am not able to save the alert itself

Re: cron job not working

damien_chillet — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:04:08 GMT

That is strange, are you sure the cron expression is the issue?
It could be another parameter wrongly set?
Can you share a screenshot of it maybe?

Re: cron job not working

logloganathan — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 08:46:37 GMT

i am not able to save the file. it telling red mark at Cron expression i entered.

Re: cron job not working

damien_chillet — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:28:19 GMT

Sorry to hear that...
I'm surprised we cannot get it to work.
Which version of Splunk are you running?

Re: cron job not working

kthammireddygar — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:36:31 GMT

I am able to Schedule with this cron job 0 0,1,3-23 * * * in Splunk Version 6.6.4.
Can you please provide a screenshot of the error (red mark at cron expression)?

Re: cron job not working

p_gurav — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:40:40 GMT

Is there any error any getting?

Re: cron job not working

logloganathan — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 13:10:56 GMT

its working...the mistake i did not entered the commas

so i put 0 0-1,3-23 * * * as you say earlier

Re: cron job not working

logloganathan — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 13:13:09 GMT

Thanks for your valuable response!!

Re: cron job not working

logloganathan — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 13:13:50 GMT

thanks for your valuable response