Column details/filter

[DavidS]

I’m new to BB and it’s a great app to force updates etc.

Issue I have is with 1200+ PC listed, I find it time consuming to find active PCs to send commands.

I currently select a large number, send PING

Select those that reply, send a specific patch install

Unfortunately there is no easy way to select those that respond…lots of ctrl+click

Because “All Message” have date/time stamp that can’t be used

Ping Reply works for first group, but not after that as “Reply from…” is the start of those already done and those that just responded.

I know about ctrl+e to disable a line, but that doesn’t alter the sort.

Only options I have is to delete the line or move to another tab, but that can get messy.

How are other people using BB to 1000+ devices?

[doug]

For what you are describing and wanting to do it does sound like you really want a tab with the “not yet complete” and a tab with the “already complete” hosts. However, if you don’t actually want to move completed hosts into a new tab then there are other options available:

For example you could assign a category or description or custom notes to rows that have been completed. Use ‘Actions > Modify category, description, location, notes, color etc’ Then sort by that column.

Another option is to use the Task Scheduler option to ‘Run task immediately upon detecting target computer online’. Apply that to every row in the grid and then start the scheduler and just leave it be and check back later.

[DavidS]

Thanks for the reply.

I’ve look more into the scheduler, create a job queue (ping, check for updates, wait, download and install, reboot if no users logged in) and applied that to “Run task immediately” task.

Sounds like it will work.

Can I ask the step “Check For Updates”, will the next step wait until that step is completed before advancing or will I need a bigger Wait step?

[doug]

A job queue step that comes after ‘check for available updates’ will not start until after ‘check for available updates’ has completed.

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