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Oozie coordinator with sysdate as start time

I want to run oozie coordinator with start time as sysdate. How do I do that?
is it possible to put sysdate as start date ? Will it catch up?

Solution

  • You can make coorodinator's "start" refer to a variable - startTime, then overwrite its value with sysdate from command line, such as:

     oozie job -run -config ./coord.properties -DstartTime=`date -u "+%Y-%m-%dT%H:00Z"`

    adjust the time format if you are not using UTC time zone in your system.

    sample coordinator job xml:

    <coordinator-app name="my-coord"                               
    frequency="${frequency}" start="${startTime}" end="${end}" timezone="UTC" 
    xmlns="uri:oozie:coordinator:0.4">                                    
    <action>                                                              
            <workflow> ...

    coordinator attribute file coord.properties:

    ...
startTime=2014-05-19T22:00Z 
end=2015-01-19T22:08Z   
frequency=60 ...