Tasks

Task is the main component of the Octopus scheduler. You define what to run in the task definition. Task properties are explained below;

General

Name: Unique name of the task.

Run Plan: Shows to which plan this task belongs. A task does not necessarily have belong to plan and it can only belong to one plan.

Connection: Generally the connection defaults to the plans connection if the task belongs to a plan. But we can override the connection in the task definition.

Retry Count: Indicates the number of tries if a task fails. For example if the retry count is 2 and the task fails, system will try to execute the task again after some wait time.

Priority: The priority of the task among the other tasks that are belong to the same plan. Higher priority value means it is more likely that the task will be executed first.

Active: Only the active tasks get executed. You can set the active value to "No" if you do not want to execute the task but also do not want to delete it.

Description: Simply the description of the task. Good for documentation purposes.