Maintenance items within the Addigy platform are scheduled tasks to run on a regular basis for your devices. This makes them inherently proactive tools for keeping your devices up to spec and in tip-top shape.To create a Maintenance item:
- Select the Catalog link on the Navigation bar.
- Select the Maintenance tab in the catalog section.
- Click the New button.
A Create Maintenance modal window will appear with options for your maintenance item. Here is a brief description of each item:
- Name - this is the name that will appear in you Catalog and Policies.
- Description - Extra details you may want to add.
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Custom script or Use saved Script -
- If Custom Script is selected, enter your script
- If Use saved Script is selected, choose 1 or more scripts created under Devices -> Manage
- Frequency - Daily/Weekly/Monthly - the schedule on which the Maintenance item will be run
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Prompt User - when true, the user will receive a prompt before the Maintenance item runs. They may choose to proceed or cancel the Maintenance item from running.
- Days before forcing without prompt - Only available when Prompt User is checked and Frequency is Weekly or Monthly. The number of attempts to attempt to run the maintenance before forcing, the user will not be prompted the item will be run.
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Use the device's local time for scheduling maintenance items
- This will trigger the maintenance based on the user's computer time zone.
- Script Run Execution Time Out
- Sets the amount of time a maintenance item is allowed to execute. If the time period is exceeded, the maintenance item will be canceled.
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Time / Money Savings
- Job time in minutes - a simple calculator based on your organization's EBA global setting to calculate your engineers' time saved.
Note: If the device is offline at the time the maintenance job runs, the job will be re-scheduled for the next day at the same time and count as one failed attempt. This is true for weekly and monthly maintenance items as well. If a user declines a maintenance prompt, that will also count as a failed attempt. And if a maintenance item is forced, an email will be sent with a summary of the forced maintenance jobs. When you're happy with the maintenance settings, click on the Save button in the bottom right of the window.
The new maintenance will show as an item in your maintenance catalog. To run this on your devices, follow our instructions for Configuring and Deploying a Policy.
If you'd like help creating your maintenance item, you can also copy maintenance templates into your personal Maintenance tab by going first to Public Maintenance and clicking Copy to my Maintenance on the desired template.
Maintenance binaries:
We will run maintenance items through our maintenance-scheduler binary located in /Library/Addigy/.
The identifiers are as follows:
The identifiers are as follows:
Code Requirement -
identifier "maintenance-scheduler" and anchor apple generic and certificate 1[field.1.2.840.113635.100.6.2.6] /* exists */ and certificate leaf[field.1.2.840.113635.100.6.1.13] /* exists */ and certificate leaf[subject.OU] = R5LEJ8Y242
Path -
/Library/Addigy/maintenance-scheduler
When Do Maintenance Items Run?
Maintenance items will run at an arbitrary time within the hour (XX:00 - XX:59) that they have been scheduled.
As an example, if a Maintenance item was scheduled to run at 7:00 AM, one machine may have the item run at 7:00 AM, and the other may run at 7:30 AM.