{"id":806,"date":"2017-02-20T12:46:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T12:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/?p=806"},"modified":"2017-02-20T12:51:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T12:51:03","slug":"how-to-create-and-remove-scheduled-tasks-in-plesk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/how-to-create-and-remove-scheduled-tasks-in-plesk\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create and Remove Scheduled Tasks in Plesk"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is Plesk Scheduled Task<\/h2>\n

Scheduled Task<\/strong> is a tool provided by Plesk control panel that allow you to run scripts on your server at specific time, and make the system automatically run the scripts for you . indeed Scheduled Task in Plesk is matching cron jobs in cPanel control panel.<\/p>\n

Creating a Scheduled Task in Plesk:<\/h2>\n
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  1. Login to your Plesk<\/strong> Control Panel.<\/li>\n
  2. On your plesk dashboard click Websites & Domains<\/strong> tab .<\/li>\n
  3. Click on Show Advanced Operations<\/strong> and click Scheduled Tasks<\/strong>, On different Plesk version <\/span><\/strong>Click on Scheduled Tasks <\/strong>located on the right top pane of the dashboard page.<\/li>\n
  4. from the Scheduled Tasks Page , click Add Task <\/strong>or Schedule New Task link<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  5. Start adding the require fields:\n
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    1. Active<\/strong> : select the active checkbox to make the new task active and running .On different Plesk version <\/span>,Switched On\u00a0 <\/strong><\/li>\n
    2. Task type<\/strong>: you have three types for the task: On different Plesk version<\/span><\/strong> these options may not showing instead showing the Command textbox<\/strong> to fill only.\n
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      1. Run a command<\/strong>. Specify the full path to the executable file to be run. This includes binary files, shell scripts, and batch files.<\/li>\n
      2. Fetch a URL<\/strong>. Specify the URL only, there is no need to type the command, such as curl or wget.<\/li>\n
      3. Run a PHP script<\/strong>. Specify the path to the script relative to your virtual host directory. You can click the\u00a0\"Scheduledicon to quickly locate the script file.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
      4. Run<\/strong> : Specify the schedule time for example : Daily at 16 :00. On different Plesk version<\/strong><\/span> you have to fill\u00a0 the Hours<\/strong>, Days of month<\/strong>, Months<\/strong> or Days of week<\/strong> fields.<\/li>\n
      5. Description<\/strong> : type your scheduled task description.On different Plesk version<\/span><\/strong> may not available.<\/li>\n
      6. Notify<\/strong>:On different Plesk version<\/span><\/strong> may not available.\n
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        1. Do not notify<\/strong>: no notification will sent to you\u00a0 at all.<\/li>\n
        2. Errors only<\/strong>: Notifications contain the command output and are sent only if the exit code is non-zero. Meaning when the scheduled task occurred , notification email will send depends on Send notifications to\u00a0<\/strong>that you specify , you can select\u00a0Subscription owner email<\/strong> or any Other users.<\/strong><\/li>\n
        3. Every time<\/strong>:Notifications contain the command output and are sent regardless of the command exit code. So each time the scheduled task run , it will send notification email\u00a0depends on Send notifications to\u00a0<\/strong>that you specify , you can select\u00a0Subscription owner email<\/strong> or any Other users.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
        4. Now you have Option to Run Now button<\/strong> to save and run immediately\u00a0 ,\u00a0 or press Ok button<\/strong> to Save and leave the scheduled task to run on its schedule time.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Editing or Removing\u00a0 Scheduled Tasks (Cron Jobs) Within Plesk<\/h2>\n

          To Edit or Remove the scheduled that already exists on your account :<\/p>\n

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          1. Login to your Plesk control panel.<\/li>\n
          2. Click on Show Advanced Operations<\/strong> and click Scheduled Tasks<\/strong>, On different Plesk version<\/span><\/strong> Click on Scheduled Tasks <\/strong>located on the right top pane of the dashboard page.<\/li>\n
          3. From the list you can click the checkbox for each scheduled task row and then click Remove button<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
          4. If you want to Edit the existing scheduled task , click the command name from the list and you can start edit the same fields that you already entered while adding process.<\/li>\n
          5. The list also provide Run Now Link<\/strong> button to run the task immediately\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
            If you are unable to find the Scheduled Task link within your plesk account , its mean that your account or package has no permission to manage Scheduled Task.<\/div>\n

            Creating a Scheduled Task in Plesk Image Guide:<\/h2>\n

            the screen shots showing how to add scheduled task on different plesk versions and view theme<\/p>\n

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            What is Plesk Scheduled Task Scheduled Task is a tool provided by Plesk control panel that allow you to run scripts on your server at specific time, and make the system automatically run the scripts for you . indeed Scheduled Task in Plesk is matching cron jobs in cPanel control panel. Creating a Scheduled Task […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[38,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}