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Chapter 6 Managing Inventory Collection and Polling Using Inventory
Using the Inventory Job Browser and Viewing Inventory Collection Status
• Device Selector, if you want to schedule report generation for static set of devices (See the topic,
Using RME Device Selector in the section Adding and Troubleshooting Devices Using Device
Management, for more details.) You can select devices that are in Normal, Pending or Pre-deployed
states for job creation.
Or
• Group Selector, if you want to schedule report generation for dynamic group of devices.
Step 3 Enter the information required to create a job:
Field Description
Job Type Select either Inventory Collection or Inventory Polling, as required.
Scheduling
Run Type Specifies the type of schedule for the job:
• Immediate—Runs the report immediately.
• 6 - hourly—Runs the report every 6 hours, starting from the specified time.
• 12 - hourly—Runs the report every 12 hours, starting from the specified time.
• Once—Runs the report once at the specified date and time.
• Daily—Runs daily at the specified time.
• Weekly—Runs weekly on the day of the week and at the specified time.
• Monthly—Runs monthly on the day of the month and at the specified time.
For periodic jobs, the subsequent instances of jobs will run only after the earlier instance of the
job is complete.
For example, if you have scheduled a daily job at 10:00 a.m. on November 1, the next instance of
this job will run at 10:00 a.m. on November 2, only if the earlier instance of the November 1 job
has completed. If the 10.00 a.m. November 1 job has not completed before 10:00 a.m. November
2, then the next job will start only at 10:00 a.m. on November 3.
If you select Immediate, the date field option will be disabled.
Date 1. Enter the start date in the dd Mmm yyyy format, for example, 02 Jul 2004, or click on the
calendar icon and select the date.
2. Enter the start time by selecting the hours and minutes from the drop-down list.
The Date field is enabled only if you have selected an option other than Immediate in the Run
Type field.