Users Guide

Field Description
– Daily — To run the task once every day.
– Weekly — To run the task once every week.
– Monthly — To run the task once every month.
Range of Recurrence:
• Start — To specify the date and time at which the task
should begin.
• No End Date — To continuously run this task based on the
selected frequency. For example, if you selected Hourly, then
this task continuously runs every hour from the start time.
• End By — To stop the task at the specied date and time.
Enter the credentials with appropriate privileges to run this
task on this system
User Name — Provide OpenManage Essentials user credentials
in the format domain\user name or local host\user name.
Password — Provide the password.
Related links
Command Line Task
Managing Command Line Task
Using the Sample - Server XML Conguration Command Line Task
IPMI Command
Table 245. IPMI Command
Field Description
Command Provide the IPMI command you want to run on selected targets.
Ping Device
This option performs a ping test to verify if a device is reachable
before it runs a task against it. This option can be used when
using $IP or $RAC_IP and it decreases the time it takes to run
the task(s) as it skips unreachable devices.
Output to le Select to enable output to a log le. This option captures
standard output from the running application and writes it to the
log le. If you select this option, enter the path name and le
name of the log le. This option is disabled by default.
Append Select to append output from the completed command to the
specied le. If the le does not exist, it is created.
Include errors Select to write all OpenManage Essentials-detected errors to the
log le. For example, if no response is received to a ping request
before the execution of the command, an error is written to the
log le.
Task Target
Select a query Select a query from the drop-down list. To create a new query,
click New.
Select server(s) for this task to target Select the severs to which you want to assign this task.
Enable All Select to override the device capability and allow all the available
devices for selection as task targets.
Schedule and Credentials
Set schedule Select from these options:
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