Schedule a repetitive task

Usage and Config
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Just a quick question. Is it possible to schedule a repetitive task in Bigfix? Like I would like to run a script to a set of servers fortnightly.

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Yes, bigfix is very good at this.

You can set any action to “reapply”

5

Thanks for the quick response but will that execute the same task on an exact timing? For example, I need to execute this task every other Saturday at 12PM…

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bigfix isn’t perfect if it needs to be EXACT timing, but yes, you can schedule it to start within a certain window and repeat on a set schedule using the take action dialog options.

You can also go geeky and write custom relevance to basically do anything, including very complicated repetition. You could have something run only during prime numbered hours on every Feb 29th if you wanted.

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Or use Bigfix to deploy a locally scheduled task to run with the exact parameters you require.

We use relevance substitution to create a task scheduler xml template that works well in some circumstances.

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This is how we have leveraged Bigfix to create scheduled tasks that run at specific times. The Scheduled Tasks inspectors for Windows means we only need to create the task on endpoints that don’t already have it but we still use the scheduling functionality in the OS (in our case this is just Windows OS).

Q: not exists scheduled task whose (name of it is "ThisIsMyTask")
A: True

We then use the schtasks command to create the task with the required configurations