Adding Schedules


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Overview

If you have a large number of devices, carrying out operations such as backup, upload etc., become monotonous, if they are to be done manually. You might also require to perform certain operations at regular intervals. Execution of these operations can be automated - that is they can be scheduled for execution at the required time automatically.


Tasks such as

for a specific device or group of devices could be scheduled for execution at a future point of time. These tasks can be scheduled for automatic execution at periodic intervals or for an one-time execution.

Adding Schedules

Periodic Configuration Backup

    1. Go to "Admin" >> "Device Management" >> "All Schedules"

    2. In the UI that opens, click "New Schedule"

    3. In the UI that pops-up, provide a name for this schedule in the textfield for the parameter "Schedule Name"

    4. Choose "Configuration Backup" in the drop-down for "Task type"

    5. Specify the required recurrence option

    6. Select the devices that are to be backedup. You can either choose a list of "Specific Devices" or a "Device Group" [if you choose a device group, all the devices in the group will be backedup]

    7. The result of the scheduled task could be sent as an email notification to any number of users. Just add the email IDs to the "Recipient list" and select the recipients to whom notifications are to be sent. Sending notifications is optional. Finally, click "Save"

Periodic Report Generation

    1. Go to "Admin" >> "Device Management" >> "All Schedules"

    2. In the UI that opens, click "New Schedule"

    3. In the UI that pops-up, provide a name for this schedule in the textfield for the parameter "Schedule Name"

    4. Choose "Report Generation" in the drop-down for "Task type"

    5. Select the required report from the drop-down for "Report Type"

    6. Specify the required recurrence option

    7. Select the devices for which the report is to be generated. You can either choose a list of "Specific Devices" or a "Device Group" [if you choose a device group, the report will be generated for all the devices in the group]

    8. The result of the scheduled task could be sent as an email notification to any number of users. Just add the email IDs to the "Recipient list" and select the recipients to whom notifications are to be sent. Sending notifications is optional. Finally, click "Save"

Scheduled task for Compliance Check

Prerequisite:

Before adding a schedule for compliance check, compliance policy should have been associated with the devices. Refer to the section on Compliance Policies for more details.

Scheduled Task for Custom Templates

All the three types of custom templates - TFTP mode, script execution mode and advanced scripts could be scheduled for execution at a future point of time:

  1. Go to "Admin" >> "Device Management" >> "All Schedules"

  2. In the UI that opens, click "New Schedule"

  3. In the UI that pops-up, provide a name for this schedule in the textfield for the parameter "Schedule Name"

  4. Choose "Custom Template" in the drop-down for "Task type"

  5. Select the required template from the drop-down for "Choose Custom Template"

  6. Provide the values for the template variable

  7. Specify the required recurrence option

  8. Select the devices on which the template has to be executed. You can either choose a list of "Specific Devices" or a "Device Group" [if you choose a device group, the template will be executed on all the devices in the group]

  9. The result of the scheduled task could be sent as an email notification to any number of users. Just add the email IDs to the "Recipient list" and select the recipients to whom notifications are to be sent. Sending notifications is optional. Finally, click "Save"

 

Audit of Scheduled Task Execution

Tasks that were executed for a particular schedule (from the time of creation of the schedule up to the current time) can be viewed as a snapshot. This history provides starting time of the schedules, their ending time and also the result of execution.

To view the Audit of Schedule task execution,

    1. Go to "Admin" >> "Device Management" >> "All Schedules"

    2. In the UI that opens, click the link "View" in Audit column of each schedule

Audit can also be viewed from the "Device Details" page of the respective devices.

 

Managing Schedules

The scheduled tasks once created, can be managed from the "All Schedules" UI from where you can

    1. view the properties of scheduled tasks

    2. edit the scheduled tasks

    3. remove the schedules

Viewing the Properties of Scheduled Tasks

To view the properties of scheduled tasks,

    1. Go to "Admin" >> "Device Management" >> "All Schedules"

    2. Click the name of the schedule whose properties are to be viewed

Editing Schedules

To view edit the properties of scheduled tasks,

    1. Go to "Admin" >> "Device Management" >> "All Schedules"

    2. Click the name of the schedule whose properties are to be edited

    3. Edit the details and click "Save"

Enabling/Disabling Schedule

At times, you would require to temporarily stop the execution of a scheduled task and would like to resume it again at some other point of time.


To disable a schedule,

    1. Go to "Admin" >> "Device Management" >> "All Schedules"

    2. Select the name of the schedule which is to be disabled and click "Disable"

To enable the schedule,

Removing a Schedule

If a scheduled task is not needed, you can remove it from the list of schedules.


To remove a schedule,

    1. Go to "Admin" >> "Device Management" >> "All Schedules"

    2. Select the name of the schedule which is to be disabled and click "Disable"

    3. Click "Remove"

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