realtime log

[ohlssrog]

Hi. Must say i love this program. After we start using it, you no longer need to log in to any server 🙂

But there is one thing i miss or havent figured it out yet, how to get a real time log from client you install something on or patch it and from server you execute BP from.

Im wanna be able to see the grid-log in realtime then a server is patched instead of generate the log and then open it, where can i find the grid-log BP is generate.

Today im runing tail.exe -f \clientc$path to bp.log and it works ok, do you have any better solution for this?

Have also try trace.exe from SCCM tools

[doug]

‘Actions > Windows Updates > View BatchPatch.log’

If you want to load the log in your system viewer instead of the BP viewer then you can use ‘Tools > Settings > General > Use system default log file viewer’

I hope this helps.

-Doug

[ohlssrog]

ok that seems to work, another thing i cannot find is how to get the jobQue to load correct bps file with hosts i wanna patch or install software and how to point the que to correct bps file if i have sevrals open

[doug]

I’m not sure I understand your question. A .bps file has nothing to do with the job queue. Maybe this tutorial on the job queue will help: using-the-job-queue-in-batchpatch-for-multi-step-execution

[ohlssrog]

dont now how to put this in good english, we want to automate all manuel patching we have today with BP. then BP have to know which BPS file to load with correct hosts servers in the jobque we have in a taskschdule. The task schedule should load the the bps file and apply the jobque to this hosts in the file-grid.

[doug]

To automate patching via scheduled tasks:

1. Create and save your job queue in BatchPatch

using-the-job-queue-in-batchpatch-for-multi-step-execution

2. Create a scheduled task in BatchPatch to execute your job queue at the desired time

using-the-task-scheduler-in-batchpatch

3. Optionally set BatchPatch to run as service and send the grid to the service instance so that the computer does not need to be logged on in order to run BatchPatch scheduled tasks

running-batchpatch-as-a-service

[ohlssrog]

Hi. Thanks thats great, but i stil cannot find the solution im looking for.

How to make schedule task with the jobque by it self load the bps file with hosts and then appyl the que to them.

[doug]

It is not possible for the job queue to load a .bps file. I think you have things backwards. I don’t understand what would be the purpose of having a job queue load a .bps file when BatchPatch already provides the ability to execute a job queue as a scheduled task for any number of hosts in a grid.

[ohlssrog]

ok, yes i think so to that i have miss this, so i have to load in all hosts to BP and then point a Job to them, but how to make the job selection eg just 10 of all 50 hosts?

How to pinpoint a selections of hosts to one specific job and put it in a task?

[doug]

This is all explained in detail in the tutorials that I linked to in my previous posting:

1. Create and save your job queue in BatchPatch

using-the-job-queue-in-batchpatch-for-multi-step-execution

2. Create a scheduled task in BatchPatch to execute your job queue at the desired time

using-the-task-scheduler-in-batchpatch

3. Optionally set BatchPatch to run as service and send the grid to the service instance so that the computer does not need to be logged on in order to run BatchPatch scheduled tasks

running-batchpatch-as-a-service

[ohlssrog]

i think we missunderstand each other because of my bad english.

In the tutorials in your reply you have to load the hosts you wanna work against before you can do any schedule job

Where the automatic flow if i manually have to load hosts and mark them to the job-que.

Like i said , i want BP to do this for me and we can just setup an schedule task and let it handle our patch window we did manually before

[doug]

Thank you for clarifying. The current version of BP provides the ability to synchronize a grid with Active Directory OUs/groups on a schedule. This gives you a way to automatically load hosts into a grid.

using-the-task-scheduler-to-synchronize-a-batchpatch-grid-with-active-directory-ous-and-groups

However, currently there is no way to automatically apply a job queue or scheduled task to hosts that are added to a grid. We are working on something like this for a future version.

Thanks,

Doug

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