Scheduling Jobs

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(imported topic written by FITZPAW91)

How would you go about creating jobs that would be run once a month, on the second tuesday of the month for example, at a certain time.

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(imported comment written by FITZPAW91)

Well seeing that I have recieved no feedback, here is what I am thinking. Create 2 baselines, add Group 1 to be the only servers that are relevant to basline 1 and do the same for Group 2 to baseline 2. Then create a third baseline that encompasses the other 2 baselines, and all computers as Relevance. Then apply the baseline to all computers, the first baseline should run only against Group 1 and the second baseline should run only against Group 2. Then you can keep baseline 3 and reschedule it every month.

Does this logic make sense, or am I missing something important.

Thanks

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hi Fitzpaw,

I am not sure exactly how the system you laid out would work… but here is some relevance that you can add to Fixlets or baselines or whatever and it will only return true on the second tuesday of the month:

current date = (first tuesday of (month_and_year of current date) + 1*week)

Ben

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(imported comment written by FITZPAW91)

Thanks for the reply!

What i am trying to do is set up certain servers to run in a particular order on a certain day of the month, example the Friday after Patch Tuesday. Once the order that the servers are done in and all relevant inter-relations are working, I want to keep this job and reschedule it over and over, every month.

Example - Server 1 must be patched before server 2

Stop a service on server 3 before patching server 2

Patch Server 2

Start service on server 3

I know that this has to be done on the client side, so I am looking for a way to do this, and if I do as said in my original post, it should work as i hope.

This is a small example of some of the schedules that I must make, I have about 90 patch jobs that are similiar to this to run every month. So creating the job once and using it over and over would save lots of time, and reduce the chance of failure.