Maintaining Instrument and Task Schedules

• Maintaining Instrument and Task Schedules
  • Instrument Schedule Scope
  • Properties of an Instrument Schedule
  • Use of Instrument Schedules
  • Process to Maintain Instrument and Task Schedules

An instrument schedule is a script-based task that is executed on the system batch queue at a scheduled time and frequency of re-schedule and used to perform the upload of results from instrument files at appointed times.

Instrument Schedule Scope

Instrument schedules are created at instance-level. An instance of CCLAS can contain multiple instrument schedules.

Instrument schedules are a type of task schedule.

Instrument schedules are associated with an instrument and instrument connection.

Properties of an Instrument Schedule

An instrument schedule can have:

• A name and description
• An instrument and instrument connection—Only applicable where the instrument schedule type is for an instrument.
• Flags to denote whether the schedule is currently terminated or scheduled
• Frequency, scheduled date and date of last execution
• Folder and filename wildcard—Used by the script to perform input and output logic.
• Parameters 1—5
• Notes.

Use of Instrument Schedules

A user can interact with CCLAS in real-time to enter results for sample analysis. However, some results are contained within data files that are uploaded to the LIMS periodically from instruments or from subcontracting. For this reason, various data collection processes can be submitted to the system batch queue to be executed in the background. The task scheduler is used to submit recurring data collection jobs to the system batch queue on a regular basis.

An instrument schedule is typically used to upload results from an instrument to CCLAS. Whilst a user can interact with CCLAS in real-time to enter results for sample analysis, some results are contained within data files that are uploaded to the LIMS periodically from instruments or from subcontracting. For this reason, various data collection processes are submitted to the system batch queue for background execution. The task scheduler is used to submit recurring data collection jobs to the system batch queue on a regular basis.

An instrument schedule must link to an instrument and instrument connection so that the instrument connection's script is located and run upon schedule execution.

Process to Maintain Instrument and Task Schedules

Instrument and task schedules are configured during CCLAS setup. After this, instrument and task schedules are maintained by the CCINSH—Instrument Schedule application.