Owner's Manual

Managing Jobs and Tasks 69
Using the Jobs and Tasks Module
To display the Jobs and Tasks Portal, select click Manage Jobs and Tasks.
The Task Management solution (Create New Task page) displays the tasks in
a tree structure and is grouped in folders. The Dell tasks are grouped under
the Dell Tasks folder.
You can schedule tasks to run half-hourly, hourly, during business hours, daily,
weekly, monthly, or as custom-defined. The shared schedule allows you to
specify the time, start date, end date, and repetitive execution, for example,
daily, once, weekly, monthly, at logon, or at system startup.
You can run tasks on one or more devices or one or more collections. For tasks
that are scheduled, the credentials entered are saved so that the task can run
without user intervention.
Dell Management Console has pre-defined sample tasks for shutdown
(Power Control Device), wake up (Power Control), command line
(Run Script), and remote command line (Command Line Builder).
You can use these sample tasks and modify them by configuring the
task parameters appropriately.
NOTE: Install the Altiris Agent on the managed systems before you run the Run
Script task.
All tasks listed under the Dell Tasks folder in the Create New Task page,
except the Associate Dell Devices task, can be added as part of the Server and
Client jobs.
The Associate Dell Devices task can only be added to a Server job.
For information on all Dell tasks, see the Online Help.
Scheduling a Task
To schedule a shutdown task on a group of systems, for example, every third
Saturday of the month at 6 p.m. for the entire year, except in June, do the
following:
1
Click Manage  Jobs and Tasks to display the Jobs and Tasks Portal .
2 In the Jobs and Tasks Quick Start Web part, click Create a new job or
task
.
3 In the Create New Task page, select the Power Control Device task.
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