Managing automation

There are multiple ways to manage automated power down and power up of your Application Environment Resources using Turn it Off. This section describes those methods and how they can be used together.

Turn it Off uses several different methods of environment management. These allow you to have control on how and when the resources within those environments are turned on/off.

The core management modes are:

Scheduling - Scheduling is the base level of management as does exactly as it describes. It allows you to schedule when you environments are powered up/down based on a schedule. This can be a pre-defined schedule (which are in the system for your local timezone by default) OR Schedules which you create based on your business needs.

Metric Based Rules - These rules are set against individual resources and use metrics pulled from your cloud provider. For example, these could be CPU usage dropping below a certain % over a defined period.

Latent Application Detection (Intelligence mode) - The most advance feature is our intelligence mode, this allows for detection of user activity on those applications with endpoints used by business users. In this case we can detect when no users are present and no sessions are active and activate the stop procedure.

When this feature is activated alongside the 'Turn it On' standby page you are able to operate off-by-default operations meaning your resources are only used on-demand and off otherwise.

Sequencing - Whilst not a management capability in and of itself, the sequencing functionality allows for different subsets of resource (resource groups) to be switched off/on in a particular order for any given environment/application. This means if your application demands the a database be ready ahead of your applications, this can be accommodated.