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*/1 : day of month
* : weekly
* : monthly
* : yearly
Therefore, the example translates to executing the task every day at 22:46 UTC. What this means is that
particular attention needs to be paid to the locale where this REST command is executed and the necessary
conversion to the hour field needs to be performed (conversion to UTC according to the locale) so that the right
execution hour is persisted in the database.
2.12.4 Task status and progress Information
<SPECIFIC_TASK_URI> =<BASE_URI>/Tasks/<SPECIFIC_TASK_ID>
The following resource URI can be used to query the task execution summary:
<SPECIFIC_TASK_URI>/ExecutionSummary
Operations supported: GET
The attributes associated with the task status and progress information are described in the following table.
Attribute Name
Description
StartTime
The start time of the task.
EndTime
The end time of the task.
TaskState
The enumerated state of the task.
PercentComplete
The completion status of the task in percent.
LastUpdated
The time at which the task was last updated.
The values of the TaskState are defined in the following table.
Enum Value
Description
1
Pending
2
Running
3
Stopped
4
Complete
5
Failed
6
Scheduled
7
Not Scheduled