Recovery Options

When a task has an execution failure or Automator cannot run a scheduled task due to server down time or an outage, the Recovery options will allow you to determine how Automator should handle these tasks on system startup.

To set a recovery option, create a new task or edit an existing task, go to the Recovery Tab and select an option.

Missed Tasks

Define what Automator should do when Automator misses running a scheduled task, such as a power outage or server down time.

Go to the Recovery tab and select an option for missed scheduled starts: Do nothing, Run a single instance, Run all skipped instances.

Restart Interval

Define what interval of time Automator should restart tasks after the task ends in error. This is useful for important tasks that might end in error due to a temporary database outage for example.

Go to the Recovery tab and check the task fail checkbox. Then choose the recurrence interval (in minutes) and the number of attempts that Automator should perform.

Job Error Handling

Define how Automator reports task errors. The default behavior is to error any task that produces log entries in the log file. However, a complex report might have calculation errors of unused hidden calculations (such as invalid output columns in a table lookup) that could be ignored temporarily so a report can run until a developer can fix the report. In that case, select the 'Ignore calculation errors' option.

Go to the Recover tab and select an option for Job Error Handling: Report all errors, Ignore calculation errors.