New/Edit WhatsConfigured Schedulable Task

How to get here

Use the New/Edit WhatsConfigured Task dialog to configure a Scheduled Task. You can configure a task to run on a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or custom schedule.

Enter or select the appropriate information in the dialog boxes.

• Enter a Name for the scheduled task. This name is listed in the WhatsConfigured Scheduled Task Library.
• Enter a brief Description for the scheduled task. This description is listed in the WhatsConfigured Scheduled Task Library to help you differentiate it from other scheduled tasks.
• Select the Task Script that you want performed on the schedule you specify. Click Add Script to create a new task script.
• Select the Discovery Filename for which you want to save the scheduled task to.
• Select Save a copy of configuration to, to save WhatsConfigured task configuration information to a text file in a selected folder each time the scheduled task completes successfully. A separate file is created for each configuration key defined in the scheduled tasks script.

Note: If you select to save copies of configurations, be aware that new files are created/saved only when WhatsConfigured detects a change in the configuration.

Note: A new file is created each time the task runs regardless of whether the configuration changed since the last time the task ran.

Devices Tab

Use the Devices tab to select the device(s) to which you want to apply the task.

To apply the task to a device:

Click Add. The Select a Device dialog appears.

To remove a device from the task:

Select a device from the list, then click Remove.

Threshold Tab

Use the Threshold tab to configure an Alert Center threshold to notify you on the scheduled task.

1. Select Enable this threshold to enable and configure the threshold options.
2. Enter a Name for the threshold. This name is displayed in the WhatsUp Gold Alert Center Threshold Library.
3. Select to have the Threshold alert when the task Detects configuration changes on a device, if the task matches any of the selected conditions:
   • Detects a successful execution of a task on a device
   • Fails to run for a device
   • Successfully runs for a device
   • Fails this policy

   Note: If you do not see the appropriate policy, or if the list is empty, browse (...) to the Policy Library to configure a new policy.

4. Select the Notification policy you would like Alert Center to use to notify you when the threshold is met. If the list is empty or you want to configure a new notification policy, browse (...) to the Alert Center Notification Policy Library.

Schedule Tab

Use the Schedule tab to configure the schedule on which you would like the task performed. You can configure the task to run daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or on a custom schedule. You can also specify if this task can be run on demand, outside of the schedule you configure.

Select Enable this schedule to begin configuring the task's schedule.

Run this task

Select the type of schedule you are configuring, then configure its schedule.

Select the duration to save backups

At the bottom of the dialog, select either:

• Keep up to ___ configuration backups

- or -

• Do not limit the number of configuration backups

If you select the first option, specify the appropriate number of backup configuration files that WhatsConfigured should store for each device the to which task is assigned. The default number of backup configuration files saved per device is 5.