Chapter 14: Building And Scheduling Jobs; Viewing Job Details - Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 6.9 SP4 - V1.0 Manual

Chapter 14
Building and scheduling jobs

Viewing job details

Altiris Deployment Solution™ from Symantec User's Guide
A job represents a collection of predefined or custom deployment tasks that are
scheduled and executed remotely on selected client computers. You can build jobs with
tasks to automatically create and deploy hard disk images, back up and distribute
software or personality settings, add printers, configure computer settings, and perform
all aspects of IT administration. Jobs can be run immediately for a specific computer, or
stored and scheduled for daily or long-term administrative duties on multiple computer
groups.
Job icons appear in the Jobs pane of the Deployment Console. To assign
and schedule a job in the Deployment Console, drag the job icon to selected
computer icons. Job status icons also appear in the Details pane of the
Deployment Console to indicate various deployment states. See
details on page 145.
The New Job Wizard guides you through common deployment and management jobs. It
is an easy way to set up new users or migrate users to new computers, create and
distribute images of computers on the network, distribute software packages, restore
computers, and more. See
Jobs include one or more Deployment tasks. You build jobs by adding tasks to a job and
customizing the task for your specific needs. You can add tasks to capture and distribute
images, software packages, and personality settings. You can also write and run a script
task, or run scripted installs, configure settings, copy files and back up registry settings.
You can also modify existing jobs by adding, modifying, copy and pasting, or deleting
tasks to suit your requirements. See
jobs on page 150.
Set conditions on jobs to run only on computers with properties that match the criteria
you specify. You can build one job to run on different computer types for different
needs, and avoid mistakes by ensuring that the correct job runs on the correct managed
computer. See Setting conditions for task sets
Initial Deployment lets you run predefined jobs and configuration tasks on new
computers when they start up. You can automatically deploy new computers by imaging
and configuring TCP/IP, SIDs, and other network settings and installing basic software
packages. See Sample jobs
Sample jobs are installed with Deployment Solution and appear in the Samples folder
of the Jobs pane. You can run many sample jobs as they are, or you can set
environmental variables. See
As jobs are assigned, scheduled and executed, it is helpful to know specific details about
their status and assignments. The Deployment Console provides job icons to show the
state and status of the job in the Details pane:
New job wizard on page 146.
Deployment tasks
on page 151.
on page 196.
Sample jobs on page 196.
Viewing job
on page 155 and Building new
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