{"revision":"c10276e953456835cdbb1f3a60d58ae1980be353","document":{"id":40007,"path":"platform-administration/time-configuration/c_ScheduleEvents.md","title":"Event scheduling","bundle":null,"doc_type":null,"release":"australia","body":"\n# Event scheduling\n\nYou can use various tools for scheduling actions or tasks to happen in the future.\n\n-   **Maintenance schedules**\n\n    Changes to the CMDB can be managed through the Maintenance Schedules plugin, which enables changes to be proposed and viewed through a timeline.\n\n-   **On-call rotation**\n\n    The Group On-Call Rotation plugin enables a schedule to be defined to determine what users are primary contacts during particular hours of the day.\n\n-   **Scheduled reports**\n\n    Once you define reports, you can schedule them for emailing at a specific time, or at regular intervals, using the reporting interface.\n\n-   **Scheduled workflows**\n\n    Workflows provide a robust system for automating advanced multi-step processes. Workflows are triggered by conditions, like business rules, or they can be scheduled for a particular time/recurring schedule, like scheduled jobs.\n\n-   **Scheduled jobs**\n\n    Scheduled jobs are scripts you can specify should automatically generate at a specific date and time, or on a repeating basis.\n\n\n-   **[Event registry](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-administration/time-configuration/r_EventRegistry.md)**  \nYou can use events to schedule actions or tasks to occur when conditions are fulfilled.\n-   **[Set an inactivity monitor](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-administration/time-configuration/t_SetAnInactivityMonitor.md)**  \nYou can set an inactivity monitor that triggers an event for a task record when the task has been inactive for a certain amount of time.\n\n**Parent Topic:**[System scheduler](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-administration/time-configuration/c_SystemScheduler.md)\n\n"}}