Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 7.1, Manual

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Combining tasks into a job
You can use jobs to group several tasks together, so that they all run consecutively.
You can combine deployment-specific tasks with other tasks in a single job.
Jobs also have the condition statements that you can specify. Your tasks are then
executed only if they meet the conditions that you specify.
Jobs can be renamed, deleted, cloned, moved, and scheduled by right-clicking the
job and selecting the corresponding option.
You can drag and drop jobs to other folders and manually create folders. Any
folders that you create do not display until you create a task or job in that folder.
You can use the Deployment Portal to search for your jobs and tasks.
See “About the Deployment Portal” on page 16.
For more information, search for topics on creating a job in the Symantec
Management Platform Help.
See “Using Deployment Solution” on page 13.
To combine tasks into a job
1 In the Symantec Management Console, on the Manage menu, click Jobs and
Tasks.
2 In the left pane, right-click the folder where you want the job to be stored in,
and then click New Client Job or New Server Job.
3 In the right pane, create or add the tasks you want.
You can click New to add new jobs or tasks to your job. You can also click Add
Existing to add existing jobs or tasks to your job.
You can use the arrows to order the tasks.
See “Creating a deployment task” on page 42.
4
Select whether the job should fail if any task fails.
5 Click OK.
You can edit, order, and add or delete the tasks in a job. Right-clicking selects the
job that you want to change, and then you can use the options in the right pane.
Scheduling a deployment task
You can schedule a task to run immediately or at a time that you specify. You can
also choose the computers that the task runs on.
Running tasks and jobs
Combining tasks into a job
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