auto-shutdown | Turns off your computer after some time , like a sleep | Date Time Utils library

Background and Goal

I have a Debian/Linux VM on GCP which I manually start every morning and after it runs, it shuts down by itself using a Linux command. I want to automate the start of the VM by using the Cloud Scheduler. The question asked in GCP auto shutdown and startup using Google Cloud Schedulers has several answers and I am interested in pursuing the answer (https://stackoverflow.com/a/65062924/10322004) proposed by @nikelone because it seems to be simple and also it has been endorsed by @Damien and @RayFoss as being easy. I am a neophyte in these matters and I could not comprehend their replies fully. So this post was created to elicit more clear answers for a person like me.

What I have tried

I have gone to https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances/start (call this page A) and tried the API and was able to successfully start my already stopped VM when I clicked on the execute button. I presume that this means that my entries were fine and can be used in conjunction with appropriate software like Cloud Scheduler to perform the start function on a predefined schedule. But the problem is that I do not know or understand how to proceed from here. I give below my questions.

My Questions

1. On page A, the last three paragraphs are titled Authorization Scopes, IAM permissions, and Examples, and none of them say anything specific about what the user should do. Is it correct to assume that they have nothing to do with the Cloud Scheduler, but related to other methods to achieve the same goal? If this is not correct then my next question is what should I be doing to follow the statements in these three paragraphs?

2. Assuming that the answer to question 1 is "yes", meaning I can now start scheduling with the Cloud Scheduler, I next looked at the quickstart for Cloud Scheduler at https://cloud.google.com/scheduler/docs/quickstart (call this page B). The list of items to do is quite large including installing Cloud SDK, running a quite a few commands on the console, enabling some features, set up Pub/Sub, create a job, run the job and verify the results in Pub/Sub. This looks like a daunting set of tasks and I could not understand why it is necessary to jump through the hoops to use something that has already been achieved with just a few keystrokes earlier. So are these steps all necessary? Or is there a way to use the Cloud Scheduler directly without going through so many intermediate steps?

3. Now assume that the answer to question 2 is that I have to perform all steps stated on page B. If I run into some problem while accomplishing the tasks outlined on page B, my VM may get messed up irretrievably. Is there a way in which the Cloud Platform or its components can be used to reset my VM to its current state as of today, which is working fine? I really do not want to end up with something worse than what I have now.

I want to get the list of azure servers having auto-shutdown disabled on them, I have the below script but the issue with the script is that it gets the list of RG's under the Subscription GUID but repeats the output after every loop.

I use Azure- windows VM for running some services, the services are very stable(after testing). The server run one day and after that he has fallen and i get this message. **

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The problem was in 'Auto-shutdown' it was enabled to 'Scheduled shutdown'. you can find it under - HOME --> VM --> Auto-shutdown(under the title Operations).

I have an Azure Windows VM configed with Auto-shutdown for the sake of costing saving. It works fine that every night it shuts down the machine as scheduled. But everyday I needs to go to Azure potal to starts it manually. Is there a way to start the Azure VM automatically on a scheduled time? Thanks.

I have a vm under azure that runs my software for a client, I want to automatically stop the vm if my software does not run (My software does not run means for me the client does not use the vm and i can stop-it and restart-it the day after)

I know that azure offers the possibility to stop automatically a vm (Auto-shutdown) but I do not want to stop the vm only if my software does not run

to stop my vm, I use this code:

I want to create a custom role in Azure to allow "Virtual machine operator" to set Auto-shutdown time.

I tried creating a custom role using JSON but don't know which is the action for "Auto-shutdown"

I am trying to programmatically using C# fetch the details of Auto-shutdown parameters for a selected VM from azure portal. The things i want to achieve are given below:

1. First, get the auto shut down status it is enabled or disabled?
2. If it is enabled then get auto shutdown time and its time zone related information
3. Based on input update the timezone and time or disable the auto shutdown status on need basis

I want this to be done via C# program.

I am not knowing how to achieve it through the googling i have done. Please provide a detailed step by step guide how to achieve it as i am new to coding, C#, and AZURE

Please note that the VM's in our project are not created in any DevTest labs these are created through LCS directly and with DEMO env an option while creation.

Can you please provide details taking the above points into consideration? Or this is not possible as the step is not correct?

Please let me know if any other information is needed from my end to enable you provide me a solution.

I have already looked into below PowerShell script:

How to collect the Azure VM auto-shutdown time using PowerShell?

But this seems to be involving a VM created in DEV TEST lab which in my case will not work as our VM'S are not created in a separate lab has tried to explain above. Hence i think the script does not work

Tried to look into a few REST API but could not find anything there also.

I need to collect the Azure VM auto-shutdown time using PowerShell, but don't know how to get to the necessary resource property so the auto-shutdown time is reflected.

I am getting the following output:

In one of my macros, I have a piece of code (several actually, in different places) which deletes any special signs from a string and then compares the values in the array and looks for duplicates. It looks like this: