Multiple schedules - Notifications when finished
We're using Inventory + Deploy for installing a standard set of software on PC's and keeping it up to date. This works flawless. I have set it up so every package has it's own schedule linked to an inventory collection.
For example: There's a schedule to deploy Java runtime linked to a dynamic collection that holds computers that have either an old version, or none installed. This way I've set up collection for a bunch of different standard programs.
Now, when a new client is installed it'll receive all this software when the schedule timer is hit. This doesn't necessarily happen in set order so although I receive e-mails for every installation, I don't know when the client is completely finished installing all the packages.
So I would like to build in a notification, either by e-mail or using a script that runs on that client that notifies me when all those schedules have finished for that client.
Any ideas?
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Hi Michael,
I know this comes late, but I wanted to answer this in case you're still wanting to do this or if someone else would like to accomplish this.
If I’m understanding correctly, one thing that might work is to create a collection where all machines that have received the baseline software go. So, once your deployments have completed and meet all of the conditions (e.g. installed Java, Flash, Office, iTunes, etc.), they show up in that collection.
At a scheduled time, you would then run a deployment against that collection; it could be something as simple as a “dir” command, but nothing that would alter the configuration of the machine. Have the deployment notify on success and you would then get an email with the machines that had the “dir” command (and thus were part of the ‘completed’ collection).
Obviously, every time this schedule is run, it’s going to show you current and past computers that meet the collection conditions. This isn’t ideal since now you need to review which computers are new and which are old. What you could do to mitigate this inelegance is to create an additional condition that sets |Application|Install Date|Between|X Days ago|1 Second ago| or some other value that makes sense with your scheduled “dir” command, your baseline installations, etc. (for more information on how to do this, please see this forum post: http://support.adminarsenal.com/entries/96121768-Reports-relative-dates-only-in-the-future- )
Thanks for your reply. Better late than never cause this will accomplish what I'm trying to do. So thanks again!
I love the simplicity of this software :)
Ticket solved