Nightly period

[joeskop]

Hi to everyone.

I have some instances that must be up during night and stopped during the day.
For example, an instance that must start art 19.00 and stop at 10.00. I tried with:

begintime 19:00
endtime 10:00
It doesn't works, beginperiod must be lower than endtime

1st period
begintime 19:00
endtime 00:00

2nd period
begintime 00:00
endtime 10:00
Doesn't works too. Only the 2nd period is working, the 1st is ignored.

Maybe anyone has a solution?
Best regards,

[arieleeuw]

For period 1 only specify the begin and no end time, that will work.
You can verify the scheduled periods using the scheduler-cli describe-schedule-usage command with the schedule and period you want to check. It tells you exactly in which periods your instance will be active.

[joeskop]

Fantastic. It's true, I didn't try this solution before. Thank you!

[joeskop]

Too fine to be true. It does not works.

SCHEDULE

descriptionString: Nightly-stop
nameString: nightly-stop
periodsStringSet[2]
0: backup-hours
1: backup-hours-2
timezoneString: Europe/Rome
typeString: schedule
use_metricsBoolean: true

PERIODS:

begintimeString: 19:00
descriptionString: Backup hours
nameString: backup-hours
typeString: period
use_metricsBoolean: true
weekdaysStringSet[1]
0: mon-sun

descriptionString: Backup hours 2
endtimeString: 10:00
nameString: backup-hours-2
typeString: period
use_metricsBoolean: true
weekdaysStringSet[1]
0: mon-sun

LOG

2018-03-09 - 11:00:16.434 - DEBUG : [ Instance EC2:i-xxxxxx (testserver) ]
2018-03-09 - 11:00:16.434 - DEBUG : Current state is running, instance type is c3.large, schedule is "nightly-stop"
2018-03-09 - 11:00:16.434 - DEBUG : Time used to determine desired for instance is Fri Mar 9 12:00:05 2018
2018-03-09 - 11:00:16.434 - DEBUG : Checking conditions for period "backup-hours-2"
2018-03-09 - 11:00:16.434 - DEBUG : [running] Weekday "fri" in weekdays (mon-sun)
2018-03-09 - 11:00:16.434 - DEBUG : [stopped] Time 12:00 is after stoptime 10:00, returned state is stopped
2018-03-09 - 11:00:16.434 - DEBUG : Checking conditions for period "backup-hours"
2018-03-09 - 11:00:16.434 - DEBUG : [running] Weekday "fri" in weekdays (mon-sun)
2018-03-09 - 11:00:16.434 - DEBUG : [running] Time 12:00 is before starttime 19:00, returned state is any
2018-03-09 - 11:00:16.434 - DEBUG : "Any" state period found for current time in schedule "nightly-stop", desired state is any
2018-03-09 - 11:00:16.434 - DEBUG : Desired state for instance from schedule "nightly-stop" is any, last desired state was stopped, actual state is running

Anyone with suggestions is welcome! Thank you!

[arieleeuw]

Can you try this:

scheduler-cli create-period --name period-1 --begintime 19:00 --endtime 23:59 --stack InstanceScheduler
{
   "Period": {
      "Endtime": "23:59", 
      "Type": "period", 
      "Name": "period-1", 
      "Begintime": "19:00"
   }
}


scheduler-cli create-period --name period-2 --begintime 00:00 --endtime 10:00 --stack InstanceScheduler
{
   "Period": {
      "Endtime": "10:00", 
      "Type": "period", 
      "Name": "period-2", 
      "Begintime": "00:00"
   }
}


scheduler-cli create-schedule --name every-night --periods period-1,period-2 --stack InstanceScheduler --timezone Europe/Rome
{
   "Schedule": {
      "RetainRunning": false, 
      "Enforced": false, 
      "Name": "every-night", 
      "StopNewInstances": true, 
      "Periods": [
         "period-1", 
         "period-2"
      ], 
      "Timezone": "Europe/Rome", 
      "Type": "schedule"
   }
}

You can simulate and see your savings using the following period that shows the running hours/periods in a defined period.

scheduler-cli describe-schedule-usage --name every-night --stack InstanceScheduler --startdate 20180301 --enddate 20180308
{
   "Usage": {
      "2018-03-01": {
         "BillingHours": 15, 
         "RunningPeriods": {
            "Period-1": {
               "Begin": "03/01/18 19:00:00", 
               "End": "03/01/18 23:59:00", 
               "BillingHours": 5, 
               "BillingSeconds": 17940
            }, 
            "Period-2": {
               "Begin": "03/01/18 00:00:00", 
               "End": "03/01/18 10:00:00", 
               "BillingHours": 10, 
               "BillingSeconds": 36000
            }
         }, 
         "BillingSeconds": 53940
      }, 
      "2018-03-02": {
         "BillingHours": 15, 
         "RunningPeriods": {
            "Period-1": {
               "Begin": "03/02/18 19:00:00", 
               "End": "03/02/18 23:59:00", 
               "BillingHours": 5, 
               "BillingSeconds": 17940
            }, 
            "Period-2": {
               "Begin": "03/02/18 00:00:00", 
               "End": "03/02/18 10:00:00", 
               "BillingHours": 10, 
               "BillingSeconds": 36000
            }
         }, 
         "BillingSeconds": 53940
      }, 
      "2018-03-03": {
         "BillingHours": 15, 
         "RunningPeriods": {
            "Period-1": {
               "Begin": "03/03/18 19:00:00", 
               "End": "03/03/18 23:59:00", 
               "BillingHours": 5, 
               "BillingSeconds": 17940
            }, 
            "Period-2": {
               "Begin": "03/03/18 00:00:00", 
               "End": "03/03/18 10:00:00", 
               "BillingHours": 10, 
               "BillingSeconds": 36000
            }
         }, 
         "BillingSeconds": 53940
      }, 
      "2018-03-04": {
         "BillingHours": 15, 
         "RunningPeriods": {
            "Period-1": {
               "Begin": "03/04/18 19:00:00", 
               "End": "03/04/18 23:59:00", 
               "BillingHours": 5, 
               "BillingSeconds": 17940
            }, 
            "Period-2": {
               "Begin": "03/04/18 00:00:00", 
               "End": "03/04/18 10:00:00", 
               "BillingHours": 10, 
               "BillingSeconds": 36000
            }
         }, 
         "BillingSeconds": 53940
      }, 
      "2018-03-05": {
         "BillingHours": 15, 
         "RunningPeriods": {
            "Period-1": {
               "Begin": "03/05/18 19:00:00", 
               "End": "03/05/18 23:59:00", 
               "BillingHours": 5, 
               "BillingSeconds": 17940
            }, 
            "Period-2": {
               "Begin": "03/05/18 00:00:00", 
               "End": "03/05/18 10:00:00", 
               "BillingHours": 10, 
               "BillingSeconds": 36000
            }
         }, 
         "BillingSeconds": 53940
      }, 
      "2018-03-06": {
         "BillingHours": 15, 
         "RunningPeriods": {
            "Period-1": {
               "Begin": "03/06/18 19:00:00", 
               "End": "03/06/18 23:59:00", 
               "BillingHours": 5, 
               "BillingSeconds": 17940
            }, 
            "Period-2": {
               "Begin": "03/06/18 00:00:00", 
               "End": "03/06/18 10:00:00", 
               "BillingHours": 10, 
               "BillingSeconds": 36000
            }
         }, 
         "BillingSeconds": 53940
      }, 
      "2018-03-07": {
         "BillingHours": 15, 
         "RunningPeriods": {
            "Period-1": {
               "Begin": "03/07/18 19:00:00", 
               "End": "03/07/18 23:59:00", 
               "BillingHours": 5, 
               "BillingSeconds": 17940
            }, 
            "Period-2": {
               "Begin": "03/07/18 00:00:00", 
               "End": "03/07/18 10:00:00", 
               "BillingHours": 10, 
               "BillingSeconds": 36000
            }
         }, 
         "BillingSeconds": 53940
      }, 
      "2018-03-08": {
         "BillingHours": 15, 
         "RunningPeriods": {
            "Period-1": {
               "Begin": "03/08/18 19:00:00", 
               "End": "03/08/18 23:59:00", 
               "BillingHours": 5, 
               "BillingSeconds": 17940
            }, 
            "Period-2": {
               "Begin": "03/08/18 00:00:00", 
               "End": "03/08/18 10:00:00", 
               "BillingHours": 10, 
               "BillingSeconds": 36000
            }
         }, 
         "BillingSeconds": 53940
      }
   }, 
   "Schedule": "every-night"
}

[hhh0505]

I have the exact same issue. Two periods , one that stops at 02:00 (lets call it abc) and one that starts at 08:00 (lets call it xyz)

So i assigned Schedule123 with periods {abc, xyz} but this doesnt work either. The state table for all tagged instances shows "any" state

i really would like to get this fixed or a solution for this.

[arieleeuw]

In order configure this you need the following periods

Tue-Sat, start 0:00, stop 2:00
Mon-Fri, start 08:00, stop 23:59

A schedule containing these periods

Starts at workdays at 8am and stops on the next day at 2am.
A fix for an issue that might stop/start at midnight has been deployed to aws answers from where you can update your stack

Regards,
Arie

[hhh0505]

Thanks for the reply, only issue with this is i have things running on these machines closer to 2am, if i run the proposed solution this will stop the instance at 23:59. If i am not mistaken?

[arieleeuw]

The latest maintenance release 2.2.2 that is on aws labs wil detect that there is an adjacent period at 0:00 and will keep the Instance running.

[hhh0505]

amazing, thanks for that info. Will try that out and report back.

edit this solution above worked. Thank you

[shsenior]

Closing due to time elapsed since last correspondence. Please re-open this if you are still having an issue.

[KALX9]

I have a similar situation. But here i don't want to mention the start or end time. I just want to mention the amount of time. Suppose if instance starts at 07:00 Hrs, it should be stopped after 2 Hours at 09:00 Hrs... or if it has started at 11:00 Hrs after 2 hours, it should stop at 13:00 Hrs.