(imported topic written by brian.armstrong91)
I am wondering if there is a way to use Relevance for the Post-Action commands. Here is my situation. When doing large deployments at night we schedule the computers to turn off after the Task or Fixlet is complete in order to conserve energy. The issue is that some of the computers need to be left on for various reasons. I would like to be able to build some relevance into the Post-Action shutdown to exclude these computers. I have yet to find a way to do this in one Action. As far as I can tell, I either have to tell ALL of the computers to shutdown or NONE.
As a workaround to this, I have created a separate task that does nothing but shut down the computers which contains relevance to exclude these computers. I schedule this task to run an hour after the primary Task was set to run assuming it had enough time to finish. This is not an ideal solution though because at times I have included computers in my shutdown task that didn’t receive the primary Task thus shutting down computers I didn’t mean to. This also means that I have to guess how long it will take for the primary task to complete before sending the shutdown task.
Another option I thought of is to use an Action script to execute the shutdown and use relevance in the script to exclude the “Do Not Shutdown” computers. This would allow me to do everything in one Action. The issue with this however is that this option doesn’t provide the user any option to cancel the shutdown without creating my own shutdown script that mimics the BigFix shutdown dialog. Since we have some stations that have staff at them 24/7, this isn’t an ideal solution either.
I have created a Computer Group called “Do Not Shutdown” for the computers that are to be left on so generating relevance to exclude them is fairly simple.
Anybody have any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help that is provided.