Owner's Manual

Managing Jobs and Tasks 81

To create the Warranty Extractor task:

Click

Manage



Jobs and Tasks

to display the

Task Ma nagement Por tal

In the

Jobs and Tasks Quick Start

Web part, click

Create a new job or

task

In the

Create New Task

page, under the

Dell Utilities

folder, select the

Warranty Extractor

task.

On the right pane, enter the number of days for which you want to retrieve

the warranty information for the newly discovered devices.

NOTE: When you run the Warranty Extractor Task for the first time, warranty

information is retrieved for all the managed devices. On subsequent runs, the

retrieve information for newly-discovered devices are retrieved (that is,

devices that were discovered by the Dell Management Console after the first

run of the task). Dated warranty information is refreshed (that is, warranty

information that was retrieved over 60 days ago.)

You can choose to refresh either all the warranty information by selecting

Delete all existing warranty information

or choosing a selective refresh by

entering a value for

refresh information retrieved n days ago

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