Understanding the Replicate Scheduler JSON

• "name"
  • Name of the task
• "command_id"
  • numeric value
  • 25 or 51
  • 25 means start the task. Can also mean reload depending on flags
  • 51 means stop the task
• "schedule"
  • 6 parameters separated by a space (* * * * * *)
  • Minute
    • 0 - 59
  • Hour
    • 0 - 23
  • Date
    • 1 - 31
    • If the format is */{?} where ? is a number between 1 and 5, this means the job is scheduled for the ?th weekday (specified in the ‘Day of the week’ parameter) of each month. If ? is 5, then the job is scheduled for the last weekday of that month.
  • Month
    • 1 - 12 (Jan - Dec)
  • Day of the week
    • 1 - 7 (Mon - Sun)
    • If the format is */{?} and the ‘Date’ parameter also has the format */{^} where ‘?’ is a number between 1 and 7, and ‘^’ is a number between 1 and 5 then the job is scheduled for every ^th (last if ^ is 5) weekday (specified by ?)
    • If the format is */{?} where ‘?’ is a number between 5 and 527039 and the ‘Date’ parameter is of the standard 1 - 31 format then the job is scheduled to run every ‘?’ minutes
  • Year
    • 4 digit year format (e.g. 2025)
• "command_requests" (These fields usually don’t have values)
  • "cleanlogs_req"
    • server
    • task
    • fts
  • "logfilerollover_req"
  • "execute_req"
    • "task"
    • "operation"
    • "flags"
      • If the value of this is “FRESH”, then the job will reload the task
  • "stoptask_req"
    • "task"
• "enabled"
  • Boolean value indicating whether the job is active or not
  • If false, then the job has been deactivated and won’t run
  • If this key isn’t visible then it’s value is true
• "task"
  • tasks associated with the scheduler job
  • comma separated string if multiple jobs
  • If this key isn’t visible then the scheduler job applies to all tasks
• "is_local_time"
  • Boolean value indicating whether the time setting is set to Replicate server time
  • If this key isn’t visible then it’s value is false and the scheduler is using UTC time
  
  

Examples of the "schedule" field

• 2 9 20 2 * 2025
  
• Once on 20/2/2025 at 9:02AM
• 4 12 * * * * 
• Daily at 12:04PM
• 5 9 * * 2,6 *
• Weekly on Tuesday, Saturday at 9:05AM
• 6 9 15 * * *
  
• Monthly on the 15th of each month at 9:06AM
  
• 7 9 */5 * */6 * 
• Monthly on the last Saturday of each month at 9:07AM
• 15 20 */3 * */3 *
• Monthly on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 8:15PM
• 0 12 26 2 */5070 2025 
• Every 3 days, 12 hours and 30 mins (5070 mins total), starting 26/2/2025 at 12:00PM (5070 = (3 * 24 * 60) + (12 * 60) + 30)