Configuring Schedulable Tasks

Use the New/Edit Configuration Management Task dialog to configure a task to run on a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or custom schedule.

To access this dialog:

1. From Task Library, click 'new' () and then select Schedule.
2. The New Schedule Task dialog displays.
3. Configure the following:
   • Enter a Name for the scheduled task. This name is listed in the Configuration Management Task Library.
   • Enter a brief Description for the scheduled task.
   • Select the Task Script that you want performed on the schedule you specify. Click Add Script to create a new custom task script. For more information, see Configuring custom task scripts.
   • Select Save a copy of configuration to, to save Configuration Management 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 Configuration Management detects a change in the configuration.

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' (). Select a Device dialog displays.
• 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.

• Select Enable this threshold to enable and configure the threshold options.
• Enter a Name for the threshold. This name is displayed in the Network Performance Monitor Alert Center Threshold Library.
• Select to have the Threshold alert if the task matches any of the selected conditions:
  • Detects configuration changes 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.

• 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.
• Optionally, click to select Email Configuration Changes to have an email sent to the email address specified in the notification policy. If you do not select this option, Configuration Management threshold information displayed in Alert Center reports may be clipped.

Note: To email configuration changes, you must have a notification policy with an email action set, and you must select Detects configuration changes on a device threshold option.

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. For more information, see Configuring task schedules.

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 Configuration Management should store for each device to which task is assigned. The default number of backup configuration files saved per device is 5.

See Also Using Tasks Task Library Configuring Password Tasks Assigning a Task to a Device Running a Task Immediately