Staggering restarts of endpoints

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We have a data center with a large number of endpoints. Only 30 servers can be restarted at a time or it will overwhelm the storage server. So we manually restart 30 servers, wait 15 minutes and then restart another 30 servers and so on.

Does anybody know of a way to automate this without having to create a ton of groups? Is there a way to process a computer group and automatically create multiple actions? Or is there a way to control the number of computers in an action so that it would reboot 30 computers wait 15 minutes and then reboot another 30 computers?

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Have you looked at the Temporal distribution?

You can tell BigFix to spread a restart action over xx minutes.

You might also be able to use Server Automation to do this.