User Guide

Administrator’s Guide 63
Updating and Mirroring Tasks
• Select Enable randomization.
• Inthetwoadjoining boxes,click toenterthetimeframe,inhours
and minutes, within which you want the updating task to start. For
example, if you set the randomization range to 1 hour and 30
minutes, updating may occur at any time during the 1.5 hours
preceding or following the time specified in the Start at box.
6. Bydefault,Run missed task isselected. As aresult, any scheduled task
that failed to run due to a client computer being offline at the scheduled
time will run the next time the client machine is online.
Setting advanced schedule options
1. If you selected Daily, Weekly, Monthly,orOnce in Step 3 on page 61,
you can define a range of dates during which the task will run, and set a
repetition pattern for the scanning task. To do so, click Advanced.The
Advanced Schedule Options dialog box opens (Figure 4-10).
Figure 4-10. Advanced Schedule Options dialog box
2. To specify a range of dates when you want the task to run, select End
Date. Next,usethe in theadjacentboxes tospecifya starting dateand
an end date.
3. If you want the task repeated on a regular basis, select Repeat Task.
Next, use the two boxes adjoining the word Every to specify the
repetition pattern in hours or minutes.
Then, select either a specific local time when the task will run, or the
number of hours and minutes that the scanning activity will run.
4. When you have finished setting Advanced options, click OK.Thissaves
your settings for deployment, and returns you to the Schedule page.