If you have multiple organizations or appliances, you can export Managed Installations and transfer them among organizations and appliances as needed.
See About importing and exporting resources.
You can send messages to users by broadcasting alerts, which are displayed as pop-up messages, on Agent-managed devices.
Displaying alerts is useful when you need to communicate urgent information, or notify users before running actions or scripts on their devices.
In addition, you can create email notifications that can be sent automatically when specified criteria are met. See Scheduling notifications.
NOTE: Displaying a message on a managed device requires a connection between the Agent and the appliance. For information about Agent connections, see Configuring Agent settings.
NOTE: This type of alert is generated at the appliance, to be broadcast to Agent-managed devices. The other type of alert is the monitoring alert, which comes into the appliance from your server devices if you have enabled monitoring on them to perform basic performance monitoring. See Monitoring servers.
You can create and schedule alerts to be broadcast to Agent-managed devices as needed.
Go to the Alert Detail page:
On the left navigation bar, click Distribution, then click Alerts.
Provide the following information:
Type the content of the alert to be displayed. The message can contain up to 500 characters.
Display the message on all devices whose KACE Agents are connected to the appliance.
Display the message in the center of the screen, without allowing the user to move it, or to send it to the background. The alert must be addressed before any work can continue.
Display the message on specified devices. Use Ctrl-click or Command-click to select multiple devices.
Display the message only on devices assigned to selected labels. click Manage Associated Labels to select device labels. Use Ctrl-click or Command-click to select multiple labels.
Specify the length of time for the message to be valid. When target devices are connected to the appliance, the message is broadcast and is displayed until the user acknowledges the message by clicking OK.
NOTE: If a device is not connected to the appliance, the alert message is sent to the Agent Command Queue, and it remains there until the device connects to the appliance. When the target device connects, the message appears regardless of whether the Expiration time has elapsed.
In the Schedule section, specify the schedule settings:
Run in combination with an event rather than on a specific date or at a specific time.
Run every number of set hours.
Run Every day/specific day at HH:MM
Run daily at a specified time, or run on a designated day of the week at a specified time.
Run on the nth of every month/specific month at HH:MM
Run on the same day every month, or a specific month, at the specified time.
Run on the nth weekday of every month/specific month at HH:MM
Run on the specific weekday of every month, or a specific month, at the specified time.
Run according to a custom schedule.
Use standard 5-field cron format (extended cron format is not supported):
| | | | +────────day of week (0-6)(Sun=0)
| | | +────────month (1-12)
| | +────────day of month (1-31)
| +────────hour (0-23)
+────────minute (0-59)
Use the following when specifying values:
Spaces ( ): Separate each field with a space.
Asterisks (*): Include the entire range of values in a field with an asterisk. For example, an asterisk in the hour field indicates every hour.
Commas (,): Separate multiple values in a field with a comma. For example, 0,6 in the day of the week field indicates Sunday and Saturday.
Hyphens (-): Indicate a range of values in a field with a hyphen. For example, 1-5 in the day of the week field is equivalent to 1,2,3,4,5, which indicates Monday through Friday.
Slashes (/): Specify the intervals at which to repeat an action with a slash. For example, */3 in the hour field is equivalent to 0,3,6,9,12,15,18,21. The asterisk (*) specifies every hour, but /3 restricts this to hours divisible by 3.
15 * * * * Run 15 minutes after every hour every day
0 22 * * * Run at 22:00 every day
0 0 1 1,6 * Run at 00:00 on January 1 and June 1
30 8,12 * * 1-5 Run weekdays at 08:30 and 12:30
0 2 */2 * * Run every other day at 02:00
View Task Schedule
Click to view the task schedule. The Task Schedule dialog box displays a list of scheduled. Click a task to review the task details. For more information, see View task schedules.
Tracking changes to scripting settings
About default scripts
Adding and editing scripts
About configuration policy templates
Using Windows configuration policies
Edit policies and scripts
Search the scripting logs
Exporting scripts
You can create scripts and run them on managed devices to automate tasks and configure settings.