Process Timeout, Running tasks outside of scheduler.

I have some jobs that need to be run daily and I use the scheduler service for those. However, there are some jobs I need to run that can take anywhere from 2 to 15 minutes to complete - most of the time is spend waiting on a remote server to generate a report. The problem is that the report times out after 5 minutes, so when the DASP scheduled job runs it may or may not be around to catch the completed job from the remote server.

For various reasons I do not want this task to be initiated from some other server.

Is there someway I can get a thread to fire outside the regular 15 minute scheduler intervals, or does DASP have virtual hosting services or something else I could use for these sorts of tasks?

Thanks!

P.S. I've been with DASP for nearly a year now... keep up the good work! Thanks.

 

I am having the same issue. My task, when started from a browser, take approximately 10 minutes to run, but runs to completion successfully. When started from the scheduler, the Last Result line says reads Timeout. Where is the timeout result coming from? If something is timing out my task, any idea how can I get around this?

Thanks

 

The scheduler service has been updated since the first post. It now waits 90 seconds for the complete response from the page. The scheduler obviously can't wait forever, but a timeout does not necessarily mean that your script failed to run. Since the http call was already made, it most likely ranto completion on the server side. So if your script takes about 10 minutes to run, you will always see a timeout as a result.

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Thanks for the update