A Rule Timer defines a periodic timer and provides a way to apply the timer to expression rules, thereby enabling you to configure expression rules that trigger based on periodic timers. When the timer period is reached, the Platform retrieves the expression rules defined for the timer event and runs them, evaluating their conditions ("IF" expressions).
Each Rule Timer includes a schedule and a set of expression rules or state machines. The set of rules can include any number of expression rules or state machines. For example, RuleTimerXYZ can be scheduled to run two Expression Rules and one State Machine.
When you define a rule for a Rule Timer, you can specify whether you want that expression rule to run for all devices or not.
For more information about configuring rule timers in the Axeda Configuration application, refer to the following topics:
For information about using Axeda® Platform Web Services, refer to the Axeda® Platform Web Services Developer's Reference Guide.
For information about security for these objects, refer to Security for Objects in Axeda® Connected Product Management Applications and for information about security for these objects when Delegated Administration is enabled, refer to Security for Objects in Delegated Administration Units.
In a Platform with Delegated Administration enabled, the names of rule timers may have prefixes; for details, refer to Names of Objects in DA Units.