Trying to schedule an Instance to Stop at 1AM and Start at 6AM. about instance-scheduler-on-aws HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi,

yes, you need two periods in the schedule to do this type of scheduling

First create a period that is active from midnight until 1am

$ scheduler-cli create-period --stack InstanceScheduler --name period-midnight-1am --begintime 00:00 --endtime 01:00
{
"Period": {
"Endtime": "01:00",
"Type": "period",
"Name": "period-midnight-1am",
"Begintime": "00:00"
}
}

Then a second one that is active from 6am until midnight (note we use 23:59 as begin must be < than end). The scheduler (make sure you have the latest version installed) will detect that the two periods are adjacent and will not stop the instance at 23:59 as there is the next period that starts one minute later at 00:00)

$ scheduler-cli create-period --stack InstanceScheduler --name period-6am-midnight --begintime 06:00 --endtime 23:59
{
"Period": {
"Endtime": "23:59",
"Type": "period",
"Name": "period-6am-midnight",
"Begintime": "06:00"
}
}

Now create the schedule that contains there periods and also specifies the timezone

$scheduler-cli create-schedule --stack InstanceScheduler --name schedule-stop-between-1am-6am --periods period-midnight-1am,period-6am-midnight --timezone Europe/London

{
"Schedule": {
"RetainRunning": false,
"Enforced": false,
"Name": "schedule-stop-between-1am-6am",
"StopNewInstances": true,
"Periods": [
"period-6am-midnight",
"period-midnight-1am"
],
"Timezone": "Europe/London",
"Type": "schedule"
}
}

Now tag (Using the tag-name "Schedule" assuming you used the default name") the Instance with the name of the schedule "schedule-stop-between-1am-6am"

A great way to check if the schedule is scheduling as you expect is to use the following command that shows which periods are active in a specific date range (default if you don't specify a start/end date is today). As you see the scheduler logic detects the adjacent periods in the schedule.

$ scheduler-cli describe-schedule-usage --stack InstanceScheduler --name schedule-stop-between-1am-6am
{
"Usage": {
"2018-08-17": {
"BillingHours": 19,
"RunningPeriods": {
"Period-6am-midnight": {
"Begin": "08/17/18 06:00:00",
"End": "08/18/18 00:00:00",
"BillingHours": 18,
"BillingSeconds": 64800
},
"Period-midnight-1am": {
"Begin": "08/17/18 00:00:00",
"End": "08/17/18 01:00:00",
"BillingHours": 1,
"BillingSeconds": 3600
}
},
"BillingSeconds": 68400
}
},
"Schedule": "schedule-stop-between-1am-6am"
}

Hope this answers your question
Arie

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Hi arieleeuw,

Thank you so much for your response and I apologize for the late response. I some how was able to figure out the same solution base on your other answers in this space and didn't get a chance to get back here to thank you.

This solution worked for me perfectly. Thank you so much again for you time and response.

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