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michaelk0018
michaelk0018
July 27, 2022
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System Startup

  • July 27, 2022
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What do timer started processes do when the system is restarted?

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    mikes0011
    mikes0011
    Brainy
    July 27, 2022

    In general I think you can assume that a system restart won't have any effect on timed starts.  I believe if any were missed due to downtime during a restart, they'll automatically launch after the system is back up, though I'd need to test that to be sure.

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    michaelk0018
    michaelk0018Author
    July 27, 2022

    I would be interested in knowing any results if you can test it. Our system admin has confirmed at least some of our processes which have failed are consistent with restart times we have done.

    csteward
    csteward
    July 27, 2022

    I can confirm this is correct, when the system comes back online it will start any processes that were scheduled to run during the outage, which are configured with a Timer trigger on the Start Node.

    Just to confirm, by 'failed' you mean 'not started', vs were actually started but encountered issues?  Are these processes configured directly with a Timer trigger on the Start Node (vs a different config such as always running but a flow released via Timer Event node, etc)?  More details on the failed instances configuration would assist.

    We just rebooted a server which has a few processes starting regularly.  Our outage was 11:02-11:25, you can see the every-10-minute "COE - SYSMON - Document Upload Speed" process was scheduled to start at 11:06 and 11:16 while the system was down, and when it came up both of those instances started at 11:25 and the schedule resumed from there with the next process starting at 11:26:

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