Scheduled tasks Accounts

[Guest]

Is it possible to set the account that Hyena uses for a scheduled task when adding the remote "AT" job?

At the moment I'm creating the job on one server, editing it and then copying it elsewhere but thats a pain as I am scheduling very similar things on several servers every night at the moment.

[cmccullough]

Re: Scheduled tasks Accounts

If these computers you running Task Scheduler you shouldn't use the AT option for scheduling jobs.

Right-click on the computer and choose View Scheduled Jobs. Then right-click on one of the existing jobs and choose Add New Job (Task). This allows you to specify a user to run the task under.

If you want this scheduled on multiple computers, you can select the computers in Hyena's right window, then right-click and choose More Functions->Copy Remote Job (Task).

[Guest]

Re: Scheduled tasks Accounts

Can I ask for that as a new bit of functionality in the next version? right click multiple computers and have Add New Task ?
cheers
Andy

[kstanush]

Re: Scheduled tasks Accounts

Its a bit complicated, that is why we chose to copy a task first. That way, you can make sure that the reference task works before copying it to many computers. Its essentially the same thing as adding a task to multiple computers.

Note that you can change the account during the copy if you want to and also increase the task start time if you want.

[Guest]

Re: Scheduled tasks Accounts

Agreed - I'm deploying patches and running scans (each set of scans uses different ini files in the command line..) so I can use the copy feature - was just trying to be even lazier...