Query relating job queues and scheduling

[RobStewart]

Hello

I have been following http://batchpatch.com/virtual-machine-guest-host-update-and-reboot-sequence-automation to automate an update for some of our virtual machines

Firstly, this guide doesnt seem to match up with the version I am using :

‘2.Next select ‘Actions > Job Queue > Create/modify advanced multi-row queue sequence.’

This option does not exist. I only see ‘create / modify job queue’ and ‘execute saved job queue’

That aside, I have a few hosts that Im wishing to run some tasks on; which I have broken up into a sequence of local and remote tasks

Local command – copy some files over

Remote command – stop a service

Remote command – install related application

Remote command – reboot machine

What I want to do is to schedule the execution this job queue. If I select the option to create schedule for these rows, it wants me to select the task then the run time – it doesnt give me an option to just execute the whole grid

There are about 9 tasks in this sequence and I dont want to schedule each individually, I’ve put ‘waits’ into the sequence to allow for things to finish

[doug]

Rob – You’re using an older version of the software. Please update to the latest version with ‘Help > Check for updates.’

You can execute the job queue from the scheduler in 2 ways.

1. Create a job queue and choose the option to “Apply queue to row(s) without executing.” Then go to the scheduler and schedule a job to “Execute job queue.”

2. Create a job queue and “save” it in the job queue window with a title. Then go to the scheduler and execute the task using the title that you created when you saved the job queue.

Thanks,

Doug

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