Scheduled jobs

SECURITY  Refer to Jobs > Active Jobs in Permissions.

Creating a job

NAVIGATION  Automation > Jobs > Create Job

NAVIGATION  Job results page > select one or more devices (check boxes) > Create a Job. To view the various navigation paths you can use to access the Job Results page, refer to Job results.

NAVIGATION  Automation > Components > hover over the Edit drop-down menu for a component > Create a Job

NAVIGATION  Sites > All Sites > click the name of a site > select one or more devices (check boxes) > Create a Job

NAVIGATION  Devices > All > select one or more devices (check boxes) > Create a Job

NAVIGATION  Device Summary page > click the More icon > Create a Job. To learn how to access the Device Summary page, refer to Device Summary.

NAVIGATION  A targeted list of devices > select one or more devices (check boxes) > Create a Job. To view the navigation paths for the various targeted lists of devices, refer to Targeted lists of devices in Devices.

NAVIGATION  List of alerts > select one or more alerts (check boxes) > Create a Job. To view the navigation paths for the various lists of alerts, refer to Alerts.

Editing a job

NAVIGATION  Automation > Jobs > Edit Job (Action column in table)

NAVIGATION  Automation > Jobs > click the name of a job > Edit Job

Enter a name for the job.

Click Add Component to open a pane to the right.

The tab selection will persist the next time the pane is accessed.

You may filter components by component group or category using the filter icon , or you may search for components using the search bar. The search results will be narrowed as you type. For more information about component categories, refer to List of components. You will only be able to see the components available to you based on your component level. Refer to Component Level.

Within the Component Library tab, click Add to add a component to the job. All components of the categories Applications and Scripts are available for jobs. Refer to List of components. You may also add a component from the ComStore to your job. Within the ComStore tab, click Add. The component will be automatically added to your Component Library as well as to your job. Components that have already been added to your Component Library will appear as grayed out. Hovering over the grayed out component will display a tooltip that allows you to click to navigate to the downloaded component within your Component Library.

Once the component has been added, click X to close the pane and return to the Create a Job page. You can then configure any required variables for the component.
Variable value limit: 20,000 characters.

You may also add or remove components. Components will be executed sequentially in the order in which they are added. You can change this order by dragging and dropping the components on the page in the order in which you want them to run.

Click Add Target to open the Targets pane. Click Add to add the selected target or Delete to remove it. When creating and scheduling a job from a device's page or a devices table, the selected target will automatically be populated in this section.

You may filter on the following target types:

Target Type	Description
Device Filters	You can select any of the default device filters provided by Datto RMM, as well as custom device filters and site device filters. Refer to Device Filters. When you choose a default device filter, you can edit the sites by clicking the pencil icon on the Create a Job page. Within the Filter by Site(s) pane, toggle the All Sites button off to only select certain sites instead of all sites. You may also search for sites using the search bar. These changes will be reflected on the Create a Job page. If specific sites are selected, hover over the number of sites to see which sites have been selected for this device filter.
Device Groups	You can select device groups and site device groups. Refer to Groups.
Site Groups	Refer to Site Groups.
Sites	Refer to Sites.
Devices	Refer to Devices.

You may also search for targets using the search bar. A check in the corner next to a target indicates that it has already been added to the job. Click X to close the Targets pane and to return to the Create a Job page.

A scheduled job allows you to run one or more components immediately or at a scheduled time. Select an option from the Recurrence drop-down menu to schedule your job. The calendar view will provide a visual indicator of when the job will run according to the selected schedule.

The creator of the job configures the schedule according to their user time zone configured on the Setup > My Settings page. The job will run at the respective time in all users' time zones. Refer to User Time Zone.

The following options are available:

Field	Description
Immediately	The job will run as soon as it is created.
At Selected Date and Time	The job will run once at the selected date and time. Select the start date and execution time from the calendar.
Daily	The job will run every day at the time indicated. Select the start date and execution time from the calendar.
Weekly	The job will run every week. Select the start date and execution time from the calendar. Then, click on the days the job will run. Clicking a second time will clear that day.
Monthly	The job will run in the selected months. Select the start date and execution time from the calendar. Then, click on the months the job will run. Clicking a second time will clear that month. Enter the days of the month that the job will run into the On these days field (1-31), separating each day by a comma. Once added, the days are listed below this field and can be removed by clicking the X next to the day you wish to remove.
Monthly Day of Week	The job will run in the selected months on the specified occurrence of the selected days of the week. Select the start date and execution time from the calendar. Then, select the occurrence, days, and months in the sections below. Clicking a second time will clear that option.
Initial Audit	Devices with audit data matching the target requirements will run this job. Jobs will automatically expire on devices that do not meet the target requirements. NOTE  Initial Audit jobs cannot target individual devices. If individual devices were added, a dialog box will inform you that they have been automatically removed from this schedule.

Duration

To define when a recurring job should no longer be available for scheduling, click the Duration toggle and select a date and time from the calendar. After this date has passed, this job will no longer be automatically rescheduled.

Expiration

Select when the job will expire from the Expiration drop-down menu. Expiration defines the length of time the scheduled job remains available as either a queued or a running job. After this time has elapsed, the expired job will be canceled (if running) or removed from the job queue until the next scheduled time. This field cannot be configured for Initial Audit jobs.

The following options are available:

• Does not expire
• 30 mins
• 1 hr
• 2 hrs
• 4 hrs
• 8 hrs
• 12 hrs
• 1 day
• 3 days

NOTE  The duration setting works independently from the expiration setting and will therefore not prevent a correctly scheduled job from running.

These options allow you to configure email notifications pertaining to the job and to specify recipients of the notifications.

The following options are available:

These options allow you to run the job automatically or with user interaction.

Choose from the following options:

• Run as system account: Select to run this job automatically without user interaction.
• Run as a logged in user: Select to run this job automatically only when the user is logged in. Once selected, the following additional options become available:
  • Prompt for permission: Toggle to prompt the user to run the job.
  • Logged in user must have administrator rights: Toggle if the end user must be an Administrator of the device in order for the job to run.

When you are finished, click Create Job to execute the action or Cancel to discard the new job progress and return to the Jobs page.

NOTE  The Name, Components, and Targets fields are required for the Create Job button to become available.

A dialog box will confirm whether you wish to create this job. Click Confirm to execute the action or Cancel to close out of the dialog box. A confirmation dialog box will confirm that the job has been created successfully.

Follow any of the navigation paths described in Editing a job. On the Edit a Job page, complete the sections below to modify an existing job. You may also delete the job by clicking Delete, retire the job by clicking Retire, or copy the job by clicking Copy at the top of the page.

IMPORTANT  A job can be edited, copied, deleted, or retired only by users with the administrator security level or a user with the same security level as the one that was used when the job was created. For example, if a job was created by a user with the administrator security level, non-administrator users will be unable to edit, copy, delete, or retire that job.

Jobs and their statuses can be viewed from the Jobs page. Refer to Jobs overview. They are also displayed in the Activities card on the Device Summary page. Refer to Activities.

Click a hyperlinked job name to be directed to the Job Results page. Refer to Job results.