# Scheduler Management

For general information on resource management, see Resource Management.

## Create the management client

The following code creates an instance of the management client.

You will need to provide your `subscription_id` which can be retrieved from your subscription list.

See Resource Management Authentication for details on handling Azure Active Directory authentication with the Python SDK, and creating a `Credentials` instance.

    from azure.mgmt.scheduler import SchedulerManagementClient
        from azure.common.credentials import UserPassCredentials

    # Replace this with your subscription id
    subscription_id = '33333333-3333-3333-3333-333333333333'

    # See above for details on creating different types of AAD credentials
    credentials = UserPassCredentials(
                'user@domain.com',      # Your user
                'my_password',          # Your password
        )

    scheduler_client = SchedulerManagementClient(
        credentials,
        subscription_id
    )

## Create a job collection

The following code creates a job collection under an existing resource group. To create or manage resource groups, see Resource Management.

    from azure.mgmt.scheduler.models import JobCollectionDefinition, JobCollectionProperties, Sku

    group_name = 'myresourcegroup'
    job_collection_name = "myjobcollection"
    scheduler_client.job_collections.create_or_update(
        group_name,
        job_collection_name,
        JobCollectionDefinition(
            location = "West US",
            properties = JobCollectionProperties(
                sku = Sku(
                    name="Free"
                )
            )
        )
    )
    # scheduler_client is a JobCollectionDefinition instance