Automatic Client Deployment: Schedule

Use the Schedule tab to specify when and how often you want Vector AM to search for computers on which to deploy the Vector AM Client.

To schedule automatic Client deployments:

1    In the Start date list, enter the date on which you want the deployment to start.

2    In the Start time field, enter the time at which you want the deployment to start.

3    In the Host list, select a Scheduler to manage the deployment.

4    Choose a schedule:

    To run the deployment once at the specified time and date, select Run once only.

    To run the deployment regularly, select Repeat every and select the repeat interval.

5    To prevent the Scheduler from running an automatic deployment at specific times or on specific days, deselect the intervals you want to exclude in the Start Control slots.

6    To avoid overloading your network, Automatic Client Deployment is, by default, limited to starting 10 Client deployments each time it runs. To change the rate at which Clients are created, enter a new value in the Maximum permitted deployments per scan interval field.

7    Choose a Deployment Logging option. Select:

None to record no deployment information.

Standard to record progress information on the deployment of the Client to each target node.

Verbose to record progress and debug information for each target node.

The information is saved to the AUTODISCOVERY.LOG file in the Vector Data\Logs directory of the Console from which the deployment was configured.

8    Click Close to start automatic Client deployment. When the specified Scheduler next runs, it creates a job that deploys the Client to any computers matching the specified Active Profiles. The job continues to run at the specified intervals until the Enable Automatic Deployment check box is deselected.

Notes

    If the selected Host is unavailable or already running at full capacity at the scheduled start time, it will attempt to start the deployment at the first available opportunity. To ensure that deployments are always restricted to specific times or days, deselect the Start Control slots when the deployment must not start.

    If the specified combination of repeat schedule and excluded Start Control slots would prevent deployments from ever running, Vector AM automatically attempts to find a valid schedule by incrementing the job's start time by hourly intervals. If a valid start time is found, Vector AM resets the start time.

    Start Control affects only the start time of deployments. Excluded time slots have no effect on deployments that are already in progress.