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Patching 14 day cycle

Hello,

 

Is there a way to set your patch jobs up to run bi weekly or every 14 days.  Kace suppot says no but there are some forums that mention otherwise. Any ideas? I dont want to patch ever week and I want to patch more that once a month.

 

I have 7 Patch Jobs that will run daily every 20 minutes. Each day they will handle a different department.

 

So Location one will have 7 patch jobs run between 10a and 12 noon on Tuesday

Location two will have 7 patch jobs run between 10a and 12 noon on Wed. 

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My Cron job for each patch deployment will look like this.

Patch Job 1 at 10a on Tuesday -           *    10    *    *    2/2 

Patch Job 2 at 10:20a on Tuesday -   20   10    *    *    2/2 

Patch Job 3 at 10:40 on Tuesday –    40   10    *    *    2/2 

And so on. ( and I want this job to run again in two weeks….

 

Then on Wednesday

Patch Job 1 at 10a on Wed -            *    10    *    *    3/2 

Patch Job 2 at 10:20a on Wed -    20   10    *    *    3/2 

Patch Job 3 at 10:40a on Wed -    40   10    *    *    3/2 

And so on (and I want this Wednesday job to run again in two weeks.)

 

Am I on the right track?

 

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  • I have 7 Patch Jobs that will run daily every 20 minutes. Each day they will handle a different department.

    So Location one will have 7 patch jobs run between 10a and 12 noon on Tuesday
    Location two will have 7 patch jobs run between 10a and 12 noon on Wed.
    ____
    My Cron job for each patch deployment will look like this.
    Patch Job 1 at 10a on Tuesday - * 10 * * 2/2
    Patch Job 2 at 10:20a on Tuesday - 20 10 * * 2/2
    Patch Job 3 at 10:40 on Tuesday – 40 10 * * 2/2
    And so on. ( and I want this job to run again in two weeks….

    Then on Wednesday
    Patch Job 1 at 10a on Wed - * 10 * * 3/2
    Patch Job 2 at 10:20a on Wed - 20 10 * * 3/2
    Patch Job 3 at 10:40a on Wed - 40 10 * * 3/2
    And so on (and I want this Wednesday job to run again in two weeks.)

    Am I on the right track? - NinjaTurtle 10 years ago
    • For some reason I can't reply to your last reply. Setting 2 individual jobs would do the trick, with each having a specific date. If you don't have hundreds of patch jobs, that would be easy to manage. In your example above, make sure you put 0 for the minutes for your 10 A.M. job and not * The asterisk would run every minute during that hour. - rockhead44 10 years ago

Answers (2)

Posted by: rockhead44 10 years ago
Red Belt
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You can use cron tab (Run Custom under Patch Schedule) and specify the specific dates of the month. I don't believe you can use cron tab to do every other Tuesday. 

This example would patch on the 1st and 15th of each month at 11 P.M.

00 23 1,15 * *

Posted by: jknox 10 years ago
Red Belt
1

Sure, you can patch every 14 days, you would just have to set up a custom schedule and use cron to create the time.

If you wanted to patch every other Tuesday at 8pm for example, it would be something like this:

*    20    *    *    2/2   

Bear in mind that the cron implementation in the K1000 is classic cron, not the full version, so not all commands/variables will be available to use.

Here is a tool for cron generation: http://www.openjs.com/scripts/jslibrary/demos/crontab.php

From the 2009 Konference: http://www.kace.com/~/media/Files/Support/KACE-Konference/2009/KBOX-Power-Management.ashx


Comments:
  • So in the last entry 2/2. Does the 2 designate Tuesday and the /2 represent every other? - NinjaTurtle 10 years ago
    • Correct. The days start with Sunday (zero) and run through Saturday (six) The /2 would be every second instance of that day. Test this out on a small group and verify it works. I've had issues getting the K1000 patching to work when trying to specify specify days. I wound up going the date route. - rockhead44 10 years ago
      • ah so maybe I can duplicate my jobs and then just schedule each with a different date. So If I have a Java patch job I can just set one to run on the 1st and another to run on the 14th. - NinjaTurtle 10 years ago
  • This link will help as well. http://www.unix.com/man-page/freebsd/5/crontab/ - jknox 10 years ago
 
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