Stop instance from starting

[kenlawrie1]

Hi,

We have been running Instance Scheduler for a while now with out too many issues

Once minor issue I have just found, that is costing us money, is if we manually power off an instance that isn't required for a while, and it has a schedule tag attached to it, it automatically starts again the next day.

Is there and option, the opposite to the retain_running, where if an instance was manually powered off, it will remain off?

I know we can just remove the tag, but this is difficult to remember to do, a better option would be to remain off indefinitely if manually powered off.

Thx :-)

[CrypticCabub]

Hi @kenlawrie1

We do not currently support this use case, but it is a very interesting one to consider. I have added it to our backlog for further review by the team.

If anyone else would also like to see this feature added, please upvote the original post by clicking on the 'thumbs-up' emoji.

[CrypticCabub]

please stay on-topic when commenting on issues

[johancarstens]

Hi, I am currently doing this in version v1.5.5 for EC2 and RDS and v3.0.5 (only tested on EC2) of instance scheduler by simply deleting the begintime and only defining an endtime in the period.

Have been using this for some time now in our DEV account to stop instances and RDS at night.

Instances tagged with this schedule must be started manually which is exactly what we need.

e.g:

{
  "type": {
    "S": "period"
  },
  "name": {
    "S": "za-stoponly-1730-mo-su"
  },
  "description": {
    "S": "za-stoponly-1730-mo-su"
  },
  "endtime": {
    "S": "17:30"
  },
  "weekdays": {
    "SS": [
      "mon-sun"
    ]
  }
}

INFO : Scheduling decision for EC2:i-xxxxxxxxxxxxx (instance-schedule-testing): action: SchedulingAction.STOP reason: State transition from any to ScheduleState.STOPPED