Puppet

The schedule type should support the ability to select which days of the week the schedule would be considered valid.

The use case where this would be for a system that has a limited change window to a particular day of the week. For example, a production system which only has a change window from midnight to 6 AM Saturday and Sunday should be able to express a schedule similar to:

schedule { ‘production_change’:

range => '00:00:00 - 06:00:00',
weekday => [ 'Sat', 'Sun' ],

}

Right now there is no simple way to express such a change window in Puppet, adding support to the schedule type seems like the most appropriate approach.

I propose adding a “weekday” parameter to the schedule type. It would take either a string or an array of strings containing the days of the week in which the schedule is valid.

I have a patch that is almost finished implementing this that I can push to Github if the idea is approved.