Introduction: You can find a description of this phase in section Phase 1 (Introduction).

The following screenshot shows how to configure time-driven Input Agents with crontab syntax. Corresponding templates and a cron wizard are available via the context menu . In addition, you can define your own templates in a configuration file, which are then also selectable, see sections below.

The syntax used in Lobster_data is similar to the crontab syntax in UNIX systems. However, the numbering of weekdays differs from the UNIX syntax. It starts with 1 for Sunday.

In column Day, for example, a 1 stands for the first day of the month, an L stands for the last day of a month, and a * means every day.

Important note: In any case, avoid a single asterisk (*) in the Seconds column, because that means every second and would have a very strong impact on performance.

Important note: If a job still runs when a new start time is reached, the new start time is ignored.

The following table shows some examples of setting the time points using crontab syntax. For comprehensive explanations and examples on the topic of crontab syntax, please refer to external sources. This is a commonly used concept.