I have a Jenkins job which I would like to run from (01:00) 1 AM till (23:00) 11PM but skip midnight (00:00) and resume again from (01:00) on a daily basis. The thread How to schedule Jenkins job every Hour for the next 12 hours had this example H 9-21 * * * which i have changed to H 1-23 * * * to cater for my example.
Am I on the right track perhaps with using H 1-23 * * * ??
Yes, that should work. There is a cron tester you can look that will show you the cron version of that, and for Jenkins you just replace the 0 with the H.
http://cron.schlitt.info/index.php?cron=0+1-23+*+*+*+&iterations=50&test=Test
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I want to schedule a jenkins job every 3 hours but exclude 6 o'clock. Something like the following statement which unfortunately is not possible in Jenkins:
H (0-5,7-23)/3 * * *
If I use the following statement it is treated separately:
H 0-5/3,7-23/3 * * *
Hence, the job starts at 0 o'clock even if the previous job was executed at 22 o'clock.
The worst solution would be to specify all times manually. Is there any better way?
You will need to explicitly set the hours.
So if you want to skip 6 PM then Jenkins corn will be
H 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,19,20,21,22,23 * * *
and if you want skip 6 AM then
H 0,1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23 * * *
Schedule Jenkins Build Execution During Specific Times using Build periodically: (* * * * * *)?
For example: * * * * * * will execute builds continuously,
Is there a way to use the above approach but to run builds continuously between lets say 9am until 11pm.
Example:
Monday: time of execution: 9am until 11pm.
Tuesday: time of execution: 9am until 11pm.
To run jobs between 9am - 11pm every day, you could use the following:
* 9-23 * * *
To run jobs between 9am - 11pm only on Monday, you can use:
* 9-23 * * 1
And likewise for Tuesday:
* 9-23 * * 2
This website is a great resource for experimenting with cron job formats, and seeing a "human translation" for the syntax.
I think you can use the following cron expression : H 9-23 * * *
To build your own new cron expression keep the following link handy and test in Jenkins:
https://www.freeformatter.com/cron-expression-generator-quartz.html
I am new to Jenkins. I have a job when I went in to configuration I see that it's scheduled to run at 12:25:03 AM EDT
Build Schedule : H H(0-3) * * *
I want to change that to run at 8:15 AM EDT, how can I do that ?
If I want to run more than once for example 8:15 AM EDT and 2:15 PM EDT how can I do that ?
What does that H H(0-3) * * * stands for ?
To launch your job at 8:15am and 2:15am, you can use the following expression:
15 2,8 * * *
You can use the following web site to test your cron expressions:
http://cron.schlitt.info/
H H(0,3) * * * means your job will be launch between midnight and 3am every day.
The Jenkins documentation is very detailed on this subject (accessible from your job with the help button).
Another useful link : How to schedule jobs in Jenkins?
All,
Tried to configure jenkins job to trigger at EVERYDAY 10AM and used below cron H 10 * * * but the jenkins console is not running at 10AM rather its running at 10.09AM. Please help me to run at 10AM everyday around the year.
update: After adding the expression with '0 10 * * *', got below warning and no next run time is displayed. is that normal?
30 5 * * *
will run every day at 5:30 AM
#daily
will run the job once a day at some time, chosen by Jenkins
0 10 * * *
will run every day at 10:00 AM
When not using 'H' in the beginning you will get the warning, you will not get a tip when the job will or would have run, but it will still be active, i.e. it will run as per the statement.
You will always see a syntax error in red color when making any syntax errors.
Also, a good idea might be to create a dummy job to experiment with cron trigger, if you don't feel comfortable with it yet. Or use crontab on Linux:
crontab -e
man crontab
If you really want it at 10AM, please use 0 10 * * *
or 5:30 AM as you asked in comment
30 5 * * *
Jenkins will warn you in this case. If every job schedules like this, load suddenly goes up. Jenkins advice you to differ job time a bit. The H indicate once in every hour, not particularly at 0th minute.
How can I set Jenkins to run a job at a particular time?
Like if I'd like to set it to 8:30am every weekday and this is what I could do
H 7 * * 1-5
this randomly picks up 7:35am as running time.
H is a pseudo-random number, based on the hash of the jobname.
When you configured:
H 7
you are telling it:
At 7 o'clock, at random minute, but that same minute very time
Here is the help directly from Jenkins (just click the ? icon)
To allow periodically scheduled tasks to produce even load on the system, the symbol H (for “hash”) should be used wherever possible. For example, using 0 0 * * * for a dozen daily jobs will cause a large spike at midnight. In contrast, using H H * * * would still execute each job once a day, but not all at the same time, better using limited resources.
The H symbol can be used with a range. For example, H H(0-7) * * * means some time between 12:00 AM (midnight) to 7:59 AM. You can also use step intervals with H, with or without ranges.
The H symbol can be thought of as a random value over a range, but it actually is a hash of the job name, not a random function, so that the value remains stable for any given project
If you want it at 8:30 every weekday, then you must specify just that:
30 8 * * 1-5
Take a look at http://www.cronmaker.com/
0 30 8 ? * MON,TUE,WED,THU,FRI *
30 8 * * 1-5
This would start at 8:30am Mon-Fri.
0 and 7 are Sundays.
Not sure what the H does but I am assuming it takes the lower case hex of h and applies 68 which is 35 in decimal... lol. Don't do that.
Following this format:
Minute Hour DayOfMonth DayOfWeek Day
It picks that time because you told it that it can, as imagine you already know:
minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week.
Now you have user H which allows Jenkins to pick at random. So you have told it to run between 7-8 every week day.
Change this to:
30 8 * * 1-5
Hope this helps!