Step attempt configuration

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Hi,
can someone provide brief info on the attempts settings. I found it in the task step and I wonder what’s the use. It sounds like this will try to run integrations based on the set attempts. Am I correct? If not, please help with explanation. :blush:

Thx.
zamka

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Hi, Katarina,

with setting up “Attempts” you basically say how many times the system should try connecting to a data source when it is not accessible in some way.

This settings consists of:

  • Number of attempts - how many times the system should try to connect to a data source when it is not accessible / not responding.
  • Delay between attempts (in seconds) - when attempt to connect to the data source fails, you can set in seconds, when the next attemp should be initiated.

For example:

  • You have a step in which you connect to MS SQL database and you have set Attempts to 3 every 10s

When the task is initiated, hence the task step in which you connect to the MS SQL database is initiated and the connection fails, it will try second attempt in next 10 seconds after the failure. If also the second one fails it will try a third one again in next 10s after the failure. If neither the 3rd one is successful then after 3 attempts will task step fail.