Cron Scheduling

[Devi13]

Hello Team,

I would like to schedule a report which needs to be running on the first business day of the month.

Could you please let me know if this is possible.

[Devi13]

Thank you so much @ITWhisperer and @venkatasri for your inputs, let me try on these.

[venkatasri]

Hi @Devi13 perhaps you could try with trigger condition inside a search as a workaround? As @ITWhisperer  said, cron is not a possible and you have to schedule it for first 5 business days.

Inside search you could put couple of conditions to check the week of the day is either Saturday/Sunday (Depends on in your Locale) and another check is if the day in holiday list using this add-on (specific to your country, location ) - https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/4853.

Final Trigger condition:   if it is not a weekend and not a holiday then let the report run and do the necessary action. Having said that though cron is scheduled to run every day in first 5 days of month the trigger condition check will only let report fire the action on business day.

Hope this helps!

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Srikanth Yarlagadda.

[ITWhisperer · Accepted solution]

This is not possible as a specific cron schedule - you would have to schedule for say the first 5 days of the month and have the report check if it is running in the first business day of the month.