How do I schedule or manually run a configuration task?

To schedule a configuration management task

To view schedules

To edit a schedule

To suspend or resume a schedule

To delete a schedule

Viewing an expired schedule

To manually run a configuration task

You can create, edit, delete, suspend and resume scheduled jobs under the Schedules tab on the Configuration Management page.

To schedule a configuration management task:

1. In the Main Menu, click Administration and then click Configuration Management.
2. This will open the Device Configuration Management page. Click the Schedules tab, and then click +New at the top of the page or via the Overflow Menu.
   
   
   
   
3. The Schedule Task form will open on the right of the page. Select the task you want to schedule and click Done in the top right.
   
   
   
   
4. An Edit Schedule: [task] form will then open, where you can edit the schedule.
   
   
   
   
5. Enter a description for the task in the Description field.
6. If applicable, select the Server from the dropdown field. Note, this field has been removed from Entuity v22.0, v21.0 P05 and v20.0 P10 upwards. To create a schedule on a remote polling server from a consolidation server on these versions upwards, you will need to first select the intended remote server from the server selection dropdown field in the top left of the Schedule tab, and then follow these instructions.
7. Specify the View with which the target device is associated on your network.
8. Select the target Device or port against which you want to run the task. From Entuity v20.0 upwards, only the devices that are licensed for configuration management will appear in this list.
9. Click the Schedule field to open the Schedule form, from which you can choose to run a Predefined Schedule or a New Schedule, and define the schedule. Specify when to start the schedule, and specify its Recurrence.
   
   
   
   
10.  Click OK to save the schedule, otherwise click Cancel.

To view schedules:

1. Navigate to the Schedules tab under the Device Configuration Management page.
2. The table lists all your schedules, detailing the following information:
   
   

   Column Name	Column Description
   Task	task schedule name.
   Description	description.
   Schedule	details of the schedule.
   Server	name of the Entuity server on which the schedule is defined.
   Target	target device against which the task is scheduled.
   Last Run Time	date and time the schedule was last run.
   Next Run Time	date and time the job is next scheduled to run.
   Last Run Status	status of the last execution - Completed, Running, or Suspended.

To edit a schedule:

Note, as a result of changes made in Entuity v22.0, v21.0 P05 and v20.0 P10 (see step 6 in 'To schedule a configuration management task' above), any schedules previously created from the consoldation server for a remote polling server (i.e. using the Server field in the Edit Schedule: [schedule] form) will continue to work, but you will be unable to edit them. Instead, you will need to delete the schedule and recreate it.

1. Navigate to the Schedules tab under the Device Configuration Management page.
2. Select your preferred schedule to edit and click Edit at the top of the page, or via the Overflow Menu or right-click Context Menu.
3. The Schedule Task form will open on the right of the page, where you can edit the schedule.
4. Make the changes you want to make and click OK to save, otherwise click Cancel.

To suspend or resume a schedule:

1. Navigate to the Schedules tab under the Device Configuration Management page.
2. Select your preferred schedule to suspend/resume and click Suspend or Resume as appropriate at the top of the page, or via the Overflow Menu or right-click Context Menu.

To delete a schedule:

1. Navigate to the Schedules tab under the Device Configuration Management page.
2. Select your preferred schedule to delete and click Delete as appropriate at the top of the page, or via the Overflow Menu or right-click Context Menu.
3. A deletion confirmation window will appear. Click Yes.

Viewing an expired schedule:

When you view an schedule that has expired, a warning message will appear stating that the expired schedule cannot be edited. Click OK to close the message and view the schedule. You can view it, but the options will be grayed out.

To manually run a configuration task:

You can manually run a configuration task from the right click Context Menu of a View, device or port. In the below example, the 'Microsens Test' is a custom configuration task that can be run from the Context Menu.

From the Context Menu, you can access a number of configuration management and monitoring tasks and functionality.

Note, from Entuity v22.0 upwards, a device can either have one or two configuration files (i.e., just a 'configuration file', or a 'startup configuration file' and a 'running configuration file'). If you are using an earlier version of Entuity, devices will only have two configuration files (startup and running). Please see this article for further help and information on this.

For devices/managed objects:

For device configurations: