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How to Create a Scheduled Job

Jobs allow you to define automations in Fix Inventory and can be triggered on a regular schedule.

Prerequisites​

This guide assumes that you have already installed Fix Inventory.

Directions​

  1. Define the action you would like to automate. For example, let's say we want to send Discord alerts listing deprecated RDS instances:

    > search is(aws_rds_instance) and db_type=aurora-postgresql and db_version~11 | discord title="Outdated Aurora databases found." message="This version is outdated and should be migrated!"
    tip

    See Search How-To Guides for guidance on how to write search queries.

  2. Determine the job schedule and define it using a cron expression. For example, if we want to run the job every Monday at 9am:

    0 9 * * 1

  3. Now that we've defined the action and decided on the schedule, create the job using the job add command (replace the value of the --id parameter with a unique job identifier):

    > job add --id outdated_aurora --schedule "0 9 * * 1" 'search is(aws_rds_instance) and db_type=aurora-postgresql and db_version~11 | discord title="Outdated Aurora databases found." message="This version is outdated and should be migrated!"'

Further Reading​