By using automations, you have the ability to manage the agent installed on your computer. You can specify particular tasks as well as their timing and frequency, like scheduling updates and device restarts. Furthermore, a filter can be applied to specify which devices will be affected by the automation. To start an automation, go to any subcategory in Automations, the grey top menu will give you an option of either Create, Patch Servers, Patch Clients of Sync AD. The latter three are wizards that will let you enter information and do the named action afterwards. By clicking Create you will be redirected to the automation creator where you will be able to create almost any automation you need with the available tools in the toolbox.

In this example, the device will search for updates and show a full inventory in the Devices section.

In the task section in the automation creator you can select the hardware you want the automation to be run on, as well as hardware that is excluded. You can either enter each hardware by name, or use tags for specific groups like for example #Desktop. For this, the exclude hardware comes in handy. If you use #Desktop, but don’t want the automation to run on one specific devices, you can exclude the devices by name. You can also exclude tags, for example select all #Desktop and exclude all that have #Windows8.

Runtime lets you set the time the automation should run. If you keep the default setting no runtime, the automation will only be created and you have to activate it manually.

You can enter the start time and maximal endtime of the automation in run once.

Run periodically has three settings, based on how often you want the automation to run. You are able to make very specific and detailed time plans with the custom setting. It runs based on cron expression quartz.

The proxy variable can be established by configuring the subnet. Once you have defined the variable in the subnet configuration, it will be automatically employed during the download process.

This applies to both Wuinstall download and install. If a proxy has already been defined, the variable will be disregarded. In cases where the proxy has been set, it will be used for all wuinstall operations, including download and execute.