Hopefully simple noob question about stopping tasks

Usage and Config
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(imported topic written by dmonroe91)

Hello! I’m new to the bigFix world! :slight_smile: I’ve used Altiris for several years, and now I get to learn a new tool!

So I’ve created a task and scheduled it to run at say, 8:00pm. But now it’s being rescheduled for next week. I’ve gone to my actions, and did a right-click-> Stop Action. So the action’s state is now “Stopped”. If I double-click on my action, the computers on which it was scheduled to run are still listed as “waiting”.

Does this mean that my task is still going to run on these computers, or is there something else that I need to do to prevent my task from starting when the start-time hits? What would happen if an action was deleted, and the task was still “Open” with pending computers? :slight_smile:

Thanks for answering! I’m sure I’ll be sending more this way over time!!

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(imported comment written by dmonroe91)

Well what better way to learn than to test! Looks like the action will just remain in a “Waiting” status once the execution time passes, but it doesn’t run the task. Also looks like once the End time passes, the Action will move to “Expired” status, and the % complete would stay at 0.00%. The computers that were assigned the task would show up as Failed because the task never run. So I answered my own question! :slight_smile:

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hey dmonroe,

That is correct… once an action is stopped, it won’t run any longer (and it will “gray out” the last known status) and the agents will stop reporting results for it.

Ben