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Kai_Wilke's avatar
Kai_Wilke
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Feb 15, 2016

Reliability of [after -periodic]?

Hi Folks, I would like to implement an out-of-band management task using the [after $time -periodic { script }] command. I've already used this command in the past for some shortliving and a...
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VernonWells's avatar
VernonWells
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Feb 16, 2016

If the objective is to perform a periodic task that affects the control plane, then an iCall periodic script may be more sensible.

 

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Kai_Wilke
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Feb 16, 2016
Hi Venon, Thanks for the answer. Its not a configuration change, but still an out-off-band management task that shouldn't consume per-connection/per-request CPU cycles. The performef action is rather simple, i need to issue a [array statistics static::array] command, write a [log] and then unset the static::array variable to release memory. Still strongly recommended to use iCall for this task? Cheers, Kai