Managed Software Delivery policies set on a repeating schedule will not repeat if the advanced option "Computer is available at the exact scheduled time" is selected.

Products

• Software Management Solution

Issue/Introduction

You want to use Managed Software Delivery policies to push out software on a daily repeating scheduled but to only run compliance and
remediation at the exact scheduled time each day.

1.  Create a MSD policy
2.  Set the Compliance schedule to run at the desired time.
3.  Set the Compliance schedule to repeat daily.
4.  In the Compliance schedule Advanced options select the "Computer is available at the exact scheduled time" option.
5.  Ensure the Compliance Start Date is today or later.
6.  Set the Remediation schedule to run at the desired time, we used Agent time for our tests.
7.  In the Remediation schedule Advanced options select the "Computer is available at the exact scheduled time" option.
8.  Ensure the Remediation Start Date is today or later.
9.  Save all changes.

For one of our tests we set the Compliance schedule to run at 11:15 AM and the Remediation schedule to run at 11:30 AM.
We targeted two test clients and both received the policy and ran the Compliance check at 11:15 AM and both were found to be "Not Compliant".

• Both computers downloaded the software.
• We then powered down one of the clients, the still powered up client did remediate at 11:30 as expected.
• We powered up the other client after the scheduled remediation and it did not run remediation, again as expected.

Since the Compliance schedule is set to repeat daily we expected the second client would run both Compliance and Remediation the following day if it is available at the exact scheduled time, this did not happen. It did not run either the Compliance check or Remediation.

• Neither schedule has the End Date selected in the Advanced options.
• The Agent UI shows no Compliance check running the next day at the exact scheduled time.
• The agent logs show no entries related to this policy.
• The Remediation never happens.

The client policy XML file shows the policy scheduling as follows:
For the compliance schedule it shows the trigger type = Daily, exact = True but the frequency is set to "1".
It shows the remediation schedule with the trigger type = Once and exact = True. There is no frequency entry for the remediation schedule.

If we modify the schedule on the Advanced option by specifying an End date some time in the future it makes no difference and the policy still will not run at the next scheduled repeat if the "Computer is available at the exact scheduled time" option is selected.

Resolution

This issue is fixed in version 7.5. Please upgrade to resolve the issue.

Applies To:

Software Management 7.1 SP2 MP1 all rollups