Configure the scan schedule
Configure the scan schedule for Snow Inventory Agent for Linux if you want the agent to scan at another frequency or point in time than the default setting, which is once every 24 hours.
Cron scheduling of the Linux agent is added (or removed) using the program snowcron. To avoid multiple scheduling occurrences, any change in scheduling is automatically preceded by a removal of the current scheduling.
For a full specification of the scheduling feature, see the comment at the beginning of the snowcron script file located in /opt/snow.
Note that snowcron needs to be run with superuser privileges, which can be obtained by using for example sudo.
Define a scan schedule
To define a schedule for the scan by using a snowcron configuration file (snowcron.conf), add time and date fields, or period, to the file.
Configuration file examples:
# run snowagent at four twenty in the morning every day 20 4 * * *
# run snowagent at nine in the evening first day of the month 0 21 1 * *
# run snowagent at nine fifteen in the evening every Sunday 15 21 * * 0
# run snowagent hourly hourly
Add a scan schedule
To add scheduling by using the snowcron configuration file, specify that file in the snowcron command, for example:
cd /opt/snow ./snowcron -f /opt/snow/snowcron.conf /opt/snow/snowagent
Remove a scan schedule
To remove scheduling:
cd /opt/snow ./snowcron -r /opt/snow/snowagent