Oozie scheduling examples

You can use cron scheduling in Oozie to ensure that the jobs run according to the criteria that you specify.

The following examples show cron scheduling in Oozie. Oozie's processing time zone is UTC. If you are in a different time zone, add to or subtract from the appropriate offset in these examples.

Run at the 30th minute of every hour

Set the minute field to 30 and the remaining fields to * so they match every value.

frequency="30 * * * *"

Run at 2:30 p.m. every day

Set the minute field to 30, the hour field to 14, and the remaining fields to *.

frequency="30 14 * * *"

Run at 2:30 p.m. every day in February

Set the minute field to 30, the hour field to 14, the day-of-month field to *, the month field to 2 (February), and the day-of-week field to *.

frequency="30 14 * 2 *"

Run every 20 minutes between 5:00-10:00 a.m. and between 12:00-2:00 p.m. on the fifth day of each month

Set the minute field to 0/20, the hour field to 5-9,12-13, the day-of-month field to 0/5, and the remaining fields to *.

frequency="0/20 5-9,12-13 0/5 * *"

Run every Monday at 5:00 a.m.

Set the minute field to 0, the hour field to 5, the day-of-month field to ?, the month field to *, and the day-of-week field to MON.

frequency="0 5 ? * MON"

Run on the last day of every month at 5:00 a.m.

Set the minute field to 0, the hour field to 5, the day-of-month field to L, the month field to *, and the day-of-week field to ?.

frequency="0 5 L * ?"

Run at 5:00 a.m. on the weekday closest to the 15th day of each month

Set the minute field to 0, the hour field to 5, the day-of-month field to 15W, the month field to *, and the day-of-week field to ?.

frequency="0 5 15W * ?"

Run every 33 minutes from 9:00-3:00 p.m. on the first Monday of every month

Set the minute field to 0/33, the hour field to 9-14, the day-of-week field to 2#1 (the first Monday), and the remaining fields to *.

frequency="0/33 9-14 ? * 2#1"

Run every hour from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. on weekdays

Set the minute field to 0, the hour field to 9-17, the day-of-month field to ?, the month field to *, and the day-of-week field to 2-6.

frequency="0 9-17 ? * 2-6"

Run on the second-to-last day of every month

Set the minute field to 0, the hour field to 0, the day-of-month field to L-1, the month field to *, and the day-of-week field to ?.

frequency="0 0 L-1 * ?"

Oozie uses Quartz, a job scheduler library, to parse the cron syntax. For more examples, go to the CronTrigger Tutorial on the Quartz website. Quartz has two fields (second and year) that Oozie does not support.