Scheduling caching of OS installer?

[mccallister]

I want to do my first test of scheduling OS 10.13 installer cache tonight at 7 on a particular machine. I "think" I have the options set correctly, but when I look at policies, next to the policy the green or grey dot does not appear. "Enabled" is checked in the policy.

I've also included a screenshot of the scheduling. Do I leave the trigger options blank, or do I need to specify recurring check-in? Even when I specify the recurring ch
eck-in, it does not appear in the policies with a green or grey dot.

[bvrooman]

If I understand what you're wanting, you would need to specify a trigger (otherwise nothing will ever cause the policy to run, even after it's activated), enable the policy, and set the activation date/time.

[mccallister]

That's the odd part bvrooman, even with "recurring check-in" specified there is no green or grey dot to the left of the policy. I don't know what I am doing wrong.

[justin_smith]

Until you reach the activation window, the policy should not turn green. I'm not sure what time zone you're in, but it's not yet 7pm here on the east coast.

[easyedc]

so I just looked at my active policy. It has a green dot. It needs a trigger (recurring check-in for ex). Do you have it scoped to any particular machines? Also take note, are you wanting a server time limitation or a client. We have computers through every US Timezone, so we set it to client side times, since 7pm est is still 4pm (and working hours - aka massive network impact) for our California folks.

[schradera]

If you base a policy on Server Side time frames, it won't appear to be enabled until the time you specified. You'll also need a trigger.

I always build this part of policy building up too much in my head. I will forever think that an ongoing policy will happen all the time regardless of what triggers I enable.

Policy runs when you tell it to, based on the triggers and frequency. If I want it to run more than once a day, but only when someone logs on, then
Trigger = at logon
Frequency = ongoing