Scheduled job to trigger exactly 30 days in date field

[riaz_mansuri]

Hi,

So with a little help from the community I am almost in a good position.

What I need is for the schedule job to run daily. It needs to search the u_infra_certificates table and query the u_expiry_date.

If this date is EXACTLY 30 days from today it will trigger an Incident.

The incident part works fine but what I cannot get it to do is only run it if it is exactly 30 days.

So when it runs daily it skips it if the date is 29 days or 31 days.

My script is below.

var rec = new GlideRecord('u_infra_certificates');

rec.query();

if(rec.next()) {

  var now = new GlideDateTime();

  var gdt = new GlideDateTime(''+rec.u_cert_expiry_date);

var diffSeconds = gs.dateDiff(gdt, now, true);

          if (diffSeconds < 2592000) {

  //creates incident  

    var gr = new GlideRecord('incident');

gr.intialize();

gr.short_description = 'Certificate renewal required';

gr.assignment_group = '5e8550e90f6e3900f6e783fc22050ef3';

gr.description = rec.u_subject_name;

//gr.cmdb_ci = 'Certificate Services (Corporate Internal)';

gr.setDisplayValue('cmdb_ci','Certificate Services (Corporate Internal)');

//gr.u_inf_certificate = current.number;

gr.u_inf_certificate = rec.sys_id;

gr.insert();

  }

}

[ccajohnson]

What I have done for similar situations is to use the date parameters as part of the query string so that I only get those that I want. Here is a portion of a script I use to check if a knowledge article is about to expire. It will find those records in which the valid_to date is less than or equal to 7 days from today. Then it captures the author for use later on in the script:

function checkRevDate() {
       var aDt = new GlideDateTime();
       aDt.addDays(7);
       var cDate = aDt.toString().split(' ')[0];
       var kb = new GlideRecord('kb_knowledge');
       kb.addQuery('workflow_state', '!=', 'retired');
       kb.addQuery('author', '!=', '');
       kb.addQuery('valid_to', '<=', cDate);
       kb.query();
       kbArray = [];
       while (kb.next()) {
               kbArray.push(kb.author.toString());
       }
//removed remainder
}

Feel free to adjust to fit your scheduled job

[riaz_mansuri]

Hi Christopher,

Thanks this is helpful however I may need a little more help. I am not really a scripter.

To start with, am I starting my code the right way. It creates the Incident however I find that it just picks the first record on the table and creates the Incident on that. It does not query anything.

Secondly, On your above script, where are you referring to the table?

Thanks,

Riaz

[ccajohnson]

I have modified your script accordingly. I took the liberty of removing your commented lines as well as change the gr object to be incObj to make the code more self documenting. This should find only those records that have the u_cert_expiry_date set at 30 days ago:

       var aDt = new GlideDateTime();
       aDt.addDays(-30);
       var cDate = aDt.toString().split(' ')[0]; 
       var rec = new GlideRecord('u_infra_certificates');
       rec.addQuery('rec.u_cert_expiry_date', cDate); 
       rec.query();

       while(rec.next()) {
       //creates incident
               var incObj = new GlideRecord('incident');
               incObj.intialize();
               incObj.short_description = 'Certificate renewal required';
               incObj.assignment_group = '5e8550e90f6e3900f6e783fc22050ef3';
               incObj.description = rec.u_subject_name;
               incObj.setDisplayValue('cmdb_ci','Certificate Services (Corporate Internal)');
               incObj.u_inf_certificate = rec.sys_id;
               incObj.insert();
       }

Let me know if you have further questions,

[riaz_mansuri]

Thank you Christoper, much appreciated.

While it creates the Incidents (I have about 10 for testing) it creates an Incident for each record.

I replaced the (-30) with a (-1) just to test but still get the same result of all incidents being created.

Is it checking the date field?

Thanks,

Riaz