Sleep

"Sleep" pauses the current task between file transfers for a specified number of seconds or milliseconds.

Input Parameters

• SleepScript_Time (Required) - Specifies the number of seconds or milliseconds the script should sleep. Maximum is 16000.
• SleepScript_Unit (Required) - Specifies whether to count off time in milliseconds or seconds. Default is seconds.

Notes

This built-in script may be run per-file or once-after-all-files. This built-in script may be run as the first step of a task.

Example #1

Kara has noticed that a particular application on a remote server "chokes" when MOVEit Central uploads files to it as fast as MOVEit Central can. Kara would like to introduce an artificial pause into the MOVEit Central file transfer task that points to the flaky destination to give the remote application time to digest each file. After some trial-and-error, Kara has decided that a 5 second pause usually clears up the remote application's issues.

To make this happen in her MOVEit Central task, Kara should...

1. Select her existing task, which already has a source, destination and schedule.
2. Add a new process: "Sleep", and make sure the process is set to run "per-file"
3. Set process parameters:
   • SleepScript_Unit = "seconds"
   • SleepScript_Time = "5"