Scheduler Service Issues

Question

I'm trying to automate the execution of a server method, but after installing the Aras Scheduler Service and filling out the InnovatorServiceConfig file, the scheduled method does not execute. I can see InnovatorService trying to execute the method in Windows Event Viewer. It says "Method finished" in Event Viewer, but then shows the error "The last run was less than an Interval ago" and the method does not execute. I can execute the method fine and see changes in the database if I go to Actions>Run Server Method in Aras, but the attempts by the Scheduler Service make no difference to the specified database.

Sam Poe · Answer

Dortego, 
 I believe the issue is with the job tags above. In the current setting (with all the *s) you are telling the service to run the method, at some point, any minute of any hour of any day of any month. As you mention this is a nightly job, I would suggest setting the hours to 23, 0, or 01 (and the minutes to something like 02 to account for any timing issues). [For testing, just choose the current hour and put the minutes in the next 5 or 10, so if it's 9:30 AM, set the test at 9 hours 35 minutes.] Also, with the current setting, this method will run every day; if you want it to run only on standard business days, you should probably set days to 1,2,3,4,5 as 0 and 6 represent Sunday and Saturday, respectively (all the time-type values can be a comma-separated list, see the blog post for more information). 
 Let me know if that works, Sam