Creates a scheduled task. A scheduled task is a type of predefined scaling task that enables automatic execution of a specific scaling rule at a specified point in time. You can call the CreateScheduledTask operation to create a scheduled task to implement automatic scaling of computing resources. This ensures your business continuity and minimizes resource costs.
Usage notes
If a scheduled task fails as a result of an active scaling activity in the scaling group or disabled scaling group, the scheduled task is automatically retried during the time window specified by
LaunchExpirationTime
. If the automatic retry fails, the scheduled task is disregarded at its designated execution time.If several scheduled tasks concurrently attempt to execute the same scaling rule for a scaling group, the following rules apply:
Scaling groups with the Expected Number of Instances configured: The scaling activities incurred by the scheduled tasks are parallel scaling activities. In a proximate time window, Auto Scaling can trigger several scheduled tasks and then execute multiple parallel scaling activities at the same time.
Scaling groups with the Expected Number of Instances not configured: The scaling activity incurred by the earliest scheduled task is executed. Considering that a scaling group allows for no more than one ongoing scaling activity simultaneously, other scheduled tasks will spontaneously invoke retries within the time window specified by
LaunchExpirationTime
. Upon completion of the first scheduled task, any retries invoked by other tasks within the time window specified byLaunchExpirationTime
lead to continuous enforcement of the scaling rule, with each iteration generating a distinct scaling activity.
You can use one of the following methods to specify the scaling mode for a scheduled task:
ScheduledAction
: Specify an existing scaling rule that you want Auto Scaling to execute when the scheduled task is triggered.ScalingGroupId
: Specify the minimum number, maximum number, or expected number of instances for the scaling group for which you create the scheduled task.
Debugging
Request parameters
Parameter | Type | Required | Example | Description |
Action | String | Yes | CreateScheduledTask | The operation that you want to perform. Set the value to CreateScheduledTask. |
RegionId | String | Yes | cn-qingdao | The region ID of the scheduled task. |
ScheduledTaskName | String | No | scheduled**** | The name of the scheduled task. The name must be 2 to 64 characters in length, and can contain letters, digits, underscores (_), hyphens (-), and periods (.). It must start with a letter or digit. The name of a scheduled task must be unique in the region and within the Alibaba Cloud account. If you do not specify this parameter, the value of |
Description | String | No | Test scheduled task. | The description of the scheduled task. The description must be 2 to 200 characters in length. |
ScheduledAction | String | No | ari:acs:ess:cn-hangzhou:140692647****:scalingrule/asr-bp12tcnol686y1ik**** | The scaling rule that you want to execute when the scheduled task is triggered. Specify the unique identifier of the scaling rule. If you specify this parameter, you must use ScheduledAction to specify an existing scaling rule in the scheduled task. Note If you specify |
RecurrenceEndTime | String | No | 2014-08-17T16:55Z | The end time of the scheduled task. Specify the time in the ISO 8601 standard in the YYYY-MM-DDThh:mmZ format. The scheduled task must end no later than 365 days after you create it. |
LaunchTime | String | No | 2014-08-17T16:52Z | The start time of the scheduled task. Specify the time in the ISO 8601 standard in the YYYY-MM-DDThh:mmZ format. The scheduled task must start no later than 90 days after you create it.
|
RecurrenceType | String | No | Daily | The interval at which the scheduled task is repeatedly executed. Valid values:
If you specify |
RecurrenceValue | String | No | 1 | The number of times the scheduled task is repeatedly executed.
If you specify |
TaskEnabled | Boolean | No | true | Specifies whether to enable the scheduled task.
Default value: true. |
LaunchExpirationTime | Integer | No | 600 | The time window during which the scheduled task invokes a retry upon encountering failures. Unit: seconds. Valid values: 0 to 1800. Default value: 600. |
MinValue | Integer | No | 0 | The minimum number of instances in the scaling group if you use ScalingGroupId to specify the scaling mode of the scheduled task. |
MaxValue | Integer | No | 10 | The maximum number of instances in the scaling group if you use ScalingGroupId to specify the scaling mode of the scheduled task. |
DesiredCapacity | Integer | No | 10 | The expected number of instances in the scaling group if you use ScalingGroupId to specify the scaling mode of the scheduled task. Note This parameter takes effect only if you specify |
ScalingGroupId | String | No | asg-bp18p2yfxow2dloq**** | The ID of the scaling group for which the scheduled task takes effect. If you specify this parameter, you must also specify at least one of the following parameters: Note If you specify |
Response parameters
Parameter | Type | Example | Description |
ScheduledTaskId | String | edRtShc57WGXdt8TlPbr**** | The system-generated unique identifier for the scheduled task at the global level. |
RequestId | String | 473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3**** | The request ID. |
Examples
Sample requests
http(s)://ess.aliyuncs.com/?Action=CreateScheduledTask
&RegionId=cn-qingdao
&ScheduledTaskName=scheduled****
&Description=Test scheduled task.
&ScheduledAction=ari:acs:ess:cn-hangzhou:140692647****:scalingrule/asr-bp12tcnol686y1ik****
&RecurrenceEndTime=2014-08-17T16:55Z
&LaunchTime=2014-08-17T16:52Z
&RecurrenceType=Daily
&RecurrenceValue=1
&TaskEnabled=true
&LaunchExpirationTime=600
&MinValue=0
&MaxValue=10
&DesiredCapacity=10
&ScalingGroupId=asg-bp18p2yfxow2dloq****
&<Common request parameters>
Sample success responses
XML
format
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type:application/xml
<CreateScheduledTaskResponse>
<ScheduledTaskId>edRtShc57WGXdt8TlPbr****</ScheduledTaskId>
<RequestId>473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3****</RequestId>
</CreateScheduledTaskResponse>
JSON
format
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type:application/json
{
"ScheduledTaskId" : "edRtShc57WGXdt8TlPbr****",
"RequestId" : "473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3****"
}
Error codes
For a list of error codes, see Service error codes.
HTTP status code | Error code | Error message | Description |
404 | InvalidRegionId.NotFound | The specified region does not exist. | The specified region does not exist. |
400 | InvalidScheduledTaskName.Duplicate | The specified value of parameter ScheduledTaskName is duplicated. | A scheduled task with the given name already exists. |
400 | QuotaExceeded.ScheduledTask | Scheduled task quota exceeded. | The current account has reached its maximum capacity for scheduled tasks. |
400 | ScheduledAction.RegionMismatch | The specified scheduled task and the specified scheduled action are not in the same Region. | The specified scaling rule and the specified scheduled task are located in different regions. |