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A plan contains common definitions for all the activities it contains - such as the scheduling definition, email and syslog addresses to report to, and so on.
A plan cannot be enabled if it does not contain at least one activity
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Whenever device or domain patterns are allowed - for example, when choosing the which devices or domains to backup - use an asterisk to designate a pattern or a comma to list values
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Prod* - asterisk at the end - all devices starting with "Prod"
*1 - asterisk in the beginning - all devices ending with "1"
Device_QA_*1 - asterisk in the middle
Device*QA* - two asterisks
Device-QA1, Device-QA2, Device-*3 - a list of values with or without asterisks
*- only an asterisk, this will select all devices configured in DPOD
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The maintenance window defines the range of hours where maintenance plans are allowed to run.
It consists of two parameters in 24h format (e.g. 22:00) - the maintenance window start time and the maintenance window end time.
You can define the window for each plan separately, or use a system value defined in the system parametersdefault system value (see maintenance configurable parameters for more information)
Plans will not execute outside the maintenance window,
If some of the plan's tasks were still waiting to execute when the maintenance window time ended, all waiting tasks they will be marked as canceled and the plan execution will end - executing tasks will not be interrupted.
Error Policy
The error policy controls what happen when a task failed fails (either validation or during execution)
When the error policy is "Halt" - all waiting tasks will be canceled and will not execute - executing tasks will not be interrupted.
When the error policy is "Ignore" - other tasks will continue to execute as normal.
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There are three ways to run a maintenance plan, for all three ways, the plan must be first enabled :for all three ways to work.
- Scheduled run - enter a value in the plan's schedule field, the format is identical to the one that is used for scheduling a report
- Via REST API - Check the Maintenance Backup REST API or Sync REST API page pages for more details, the API Reference is mentioned in the plan definiton
- Ad-hoc - clicking "Execute" on the Plan Details Page
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