Scheduled bulk configurations allow for the scheduling of one or more bulk shares and/or subscribes to occur daily, weekly, monthly, once at a specified time, periodically at specified times (custom), or on demand (immediately). After creating a bulk share or creating a bulk subscribe, you can then add that bulk configuration as a child record to be run under the schedule specified within your scheduled bulk configuration. This is an alternative approach to and should not be used in conjunction with dynamic shares to avoid any redundancy in data sharing.
Prerequisites
First, you will need to create a bulk share or create a bulk subscribe.
Procedure
To create a DataSync for ServiceNow scheduled bulk configurations, follow these steps:
Log into ServiceNow and navigate to Perspectium > Replicator > Scheduled Bulk Shares.
At the top of the form next to Scheduled Bulk Configurations, click the New button.
In the Name field, type any name for your scheduled bulk configuration.
From the Run dropdown, choose when you want your scheduled bulk configuration to run. Run options include:
Option | Scheduled bulk configuration will run... |
Daily | Every day at a specified time of day |
Weekly | Every week at a specified day and time of day |
Monthly | Every month at a specified day and time of day |
Periodically | At a custom interval (e.g., every 5 days) at a specified time of day |
Once | Once at a specified date and time |
On Demand | Immediately |
If selecting a Run option where a time of day should be specified, type the hours, minutes, and seconds in each respective textbox next to the Time field.
At the bottom left-hand corner of the form, click the Submit button to save the configurations for your scheduled bulk configuration.
From the resulting list of scheduled bulk configurations, click back into the scheduled bulk configuration that you created in Step #5.
In the Number of bulk shares to run simultaneously field, type a number to specify how many bulk shares you want to run at the same time. This is useful if you don't want all the bulk shares listed in this scheduled bulk share to try and run immediately based on the number of scheduled workers you have available.
Locate the Bulk Configurations list at the bottom of the form. Here, you can either click New and then follow the steps to create a bulk share or click Edit… and add a previously created bulk share or subscribe to run under the schedule that you have created.
Specify order of Bulk Share execution (Optional)
If you want to control the order of when each bulk share are executed, you can specify which order the bulk share will run with the order field in bulk share.
If you created a new bulk share from the previous step, follow these procedures:
Follow the steps to create a bulk share. Before you save the bulk share, set the order field to the desired number.
If you added previously created bulk share from the previous step, follow these procedures:
In the scheduled bulk share, a bulk share list will appear after you add the bulk shares by clicking Edit...
Click the bulk share you want to order as the first one to be executed.
Set the order field to the desired number. Click Update.
Repeat the steps above for the rest of the bulk share.
