Trigger Install Upon New Collection Membership

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Adam Haas

• September 30, 2020 16:13

I created a collection in PDQ Inventory for computers that need specific software installed.

I created a package in PDQ Deploy that targets the aforementioned collection.

Is it possible to trigger the install once a new computer is added to the collection in PDQ Inventory?

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  Luke Nichols

  • September 30, 2020 16:26

  Adam,

  You could do a scheduled deployment on a heartbeat trigger and that should work. I usually recommend that if you're doing a heartbeat trigger you also add an interval trigger, e.g. 15 minutes because heartbeat only activates when a machine goes from offline to online, so if it is always online it won't proc the heartbeat trigger.

  You should also give some consideration to how you are going to prevent duplicate deployments-- you could simply check the box to stop deploying to targets once they succeed, but I think it's more elegant to have your filters on your dynamic collection automatically remove the machine from the target collection after it has received the desired Deploy package.

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  Adam Haas

  • September 30, 2020 16:59

  Hmm, you answered my follow-up question. If I wanted insight into who had it installed, I'd then need a second collection of identified computers with the software installed. 

  Is this an unusual way to set this up, or is this how it's done? I'm thinking of one of the PDQ videos where they showed how the Google Chrome package updates all computers that have old versions installed every Friday. I was hoping to get that same kind of thing going, but only for computers that didn't have this software installed, it would then install it so long as their computer is in the collection.

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  Luke Nichols

  • September 30, 2020 17:09

  I can't say if it's unusual or not but it is how I would do it, personally. In my experience dynamic collections are the best tool for targeting deployments and if you just want a view of computers for reference you should do it in a report, so I don't end up with a ridiculous number of collections to contend with using this method.

  I haven't seen the specific PDQ video you are talking about so I can't speak to their solution, sorry.

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