Problem:

Certain tasks require specific configurations for when and how often they should run on your hardware.

Solution:

Daily search job

You can administer a daily search job, by goingt to Administration - Settings and then switching to the System Jobs tab.

There are different possibilities for this configuration. In this screenshot the daily scan job is executed between 9:00 am and 04:00 pm, every 24 hours and after a minimum uptime of 5 minutes.

The maximum interval for daily scan jobs is 72 hours.

Update Service:

You can administer a daily search job, by goingt to Administration - Settings and then switching to the Agent Version tab.

This option sets the specified service which will be used for searching for updates.

You can choose between:

• Default:
• Use Update Service configured in your Group Policy

• WSUS:
• Use all Updates configured on your WSUS Server

• Microsoft Update:
• Use Updates for all Microsoft products including Windows, Office ..

• Windows Update:
• Use only Windows Updates

Recommendation:

Here you can configure the minimum version of the agent for your hardware. Hardware which has a version < Min. Agent version will automatically be updated to the Min. Agent version.

Agent settings

You can administer a daily search job, by goingt to Administration - Settings and then switching to the Agent Settings tab.

This configures the behavior of agents/servers during registration.

Other

You can administer a daily search job, by goingt to Administration - Settings and then switching to the Other tab.

Here you can disable the e-mail notification for your organization.

Hardware/Site assignment

You can administer a daily search job, by goingt to Administration - Settings and then switching to the Hardware/Site assignment tab.

This Configuration controls Hardware to Site assignment in your Organisation. Normally your hardware will be assigned at the first registration.

In some situations, it may be necessary to move already assigned hardware to a new Site. This behavior is controlled by the Every time configuration parameter.

Hardware Type update

You can administer a daily search job, by goingt to Administration - Settings and then switching to the Hardware Type update tab.

This configuration controls hardware type updates from the inventory. Normally your hardware type will be assigned at the first registration.

Use Every time to update the Hardware Type on every inventory but if hardware class changes the hardware type will not be updated.

With Every time including hardware class the hardware type and hardware class will be updated on every inventory.

If you use the default, New Hardware, only the new hardware gets assigned a Hardware Class and Type, it will not be updated in case it changes.

Alternatively you could use Multi-Edit to replace the current Hardware Type with the calculated Hardware Type from the inventory.

Windows Update

You can administer a daily search job, by goingt to Administration - Settings.

Here you can determind which type of Windows update you want to execute. More about the different types under Wuinstall Source.

Agent Auto Update

You can administer a daily search job, by goingt to Administration - Settings and then switching to the Agent Auto Update tab.

The configuration determines whether the agent receives automatic updates and specifies the types of updates that are installed.