Scheduler – what does Monthly exactly mean ?

[JohnnyLundgren]

Hello,

Customer is about to buy this software but wants to know a couple of things first.

We want to Schedule Windows servers in separate groups to install downloaded updates so that it will execute the updates the same day of the week and always week 2, week 3 and week 4 in every month.

Is this possible ?

Regards,

Johnny

[doug]

Hello Johnny –

Yes, this is possible. There are multiple ways to accomplish this. See below.

Please note the “Monthly” recurrence option is NOT going to give you what you want. If you used monthly recurrence and the schedule was set to run on Sept 13 2014, the next run time would be Oct 13 2014, then Nov 13 2014 etc. We have plans to improve the recurrence options in a future build of the software, though I’m not sure of the timeline for when this will be updated. However, in the mean time, there are multiple ways to do what you desire. All three of the below options will work:

1. You can use the “multiple schedules” option in the Task Scheduler to simply schedule the exact days/times you want a particular host or hosts to execute a task.

2. You can create multiple grids in BatchPatch, and have each grid be a duplicate list of hosts, but have the scheduled run day/time differ in each grid.

3. You can create multiple rows in a single grid for each host. So maybe there are 10 rows each with hostA, and then 10 rows each with hostB etc. And then each row can be scheduled with a different day/time.

I hope this helps.

-Doug

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