Submitting Jobs
In addition to running operations interactively from the Console, you can also schedule many operations to start at a specified date and time, and to be performed at regular intervals. This enables you to run operations at periods of low network demand, and to automate operations, such as Distribute Software and Update Software Inventory, that you need to perform regularly. These jobs are executed by Schedulers.
To create a new job:
1 Right-click the operation you want to schedule and choose Submit Job from the shortcut menu.
2 In the Select Clients dialog, select the Clients and groups on which you want to perform the operation, and click OK. The Submit Job dialog is displayed.
3 In the Submit Job dialog, select:
Job to name the job and view the operation details.
Schedule to specify when and how often the job must be performed.
Logging to control the progress logging of the job.
Retry to specify if the job can be re-attempted.
4 When you have specified the details of the job, click Submit to close the dialog and add the job to the list in the Console's Jobs & Schedulers folder.
Notes
To
monitor software distribution jobs that are currently in progress, click the Monitor
Software Distribution operation.
To
monitor other types of job that are currently in progress, select Scheduled
Jobs in the Jobs & Schedulers folder.
To
display the details of completed jobs, select Job Logs
in the Jobs & Schedulers folder.
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