How do you randomize the start time for a deployment schedule?
Has anyone figured out how to make the Kace appliance randomize the start time for individual servers within a deploy schedule?
We are patching virtual servers by environment, and when a bunch of them reboot at the same time, it appears to be overloading the SAN and some of them occasionally hang at the bootloader before windows starts loading. Other systems I have used (BigFix, for example) have a checkbox in the schedule definition that randomizes the start time for each computer within a window (+/- 2 minutes, for example) to reduce the load from everything trying to reboot at the same time.
Thx.
We are patching virtual servers by environment, and when a bunch of them reboot at the same time, it appears to be overloading the SAN and some of them occasionally hang at the bootloader before windows starts loading. Other systems I have used (BigFix, for example) have a checkbox in the schedule definition that randomizes the start time for each computer within a window (+/- 2 minutes, for example) to reduce the load from everything trying to reboot at the same time.
Thx.
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That randomize thing from BigFix could be interesting, you might want to add this to the Kace Uservoice portal: https://kace.uservoice.com/
The only way out.. as a workaround of course, is to create 2 or 3 schedules, with 30-0 minutes (for example) of space between execution dates. - Channeler 7 years ago