Task to Run Second Work Day of Each Month

I have a scenario where a file will drop to a share on the second work day of each month that I need to process. My thought process is to just create a scheduled task that runs once a day and the first line of the script will validate if it is the second workday of the month, if not exit, if yes it will execute.

Is this the best option or is there a better way to accomplish this?

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bsciencefiction.tv

This would potentially help

bsciencefiction.tv

Or this one

How to schedule an Application monitor to poll once or twice a day

mikegale

The most common answer seems to be to use the "Schedule Unmanaged Utility" to only monitor at certain times. I'm not a big fan of that method as it leaves your app in maintenance mode for 99% of the day and we all want to see those little green lights.

Personally, I like to add the times when the application actually needs run, in to the script. I pass the times to start and end monitoring in as ARGS so I can assign the app to multiple servers should they have the same log structure. The end result is an app that reports UP anytime outside the monitoring window.

Hopefully we can get a little buzz going about this. This has been a discussion for quite some time. Here's a feature request created years ago for this feature.