Deployment Solution

Here's an OPEN SOURCE Administrator Software Development Kit version of the axSched.exe tool that can be used in place of the DOS utility. The dssched.exe utility provides the benefit of remotely scheduling any Deployment Server job on any managed machine to run immediately.

Editor's Note: See this Juice page for an updated version of this tool.

The source code and the tool are both attached to this article. The major pre-requisites for this tool are as follows:

1. Deployment Solution 6.8.206 or higher.
2. Administrator Software Development Kit 1.3 or later must be installed on the Deployment Solution 6.8 computer.
3. IIS must be installed on the Deployment Solution box in order to register the Web services. You may have to configure IIS to provide access to the Altiris Administrator Software Development Kit Deployment Solution Web site, either by implementing Anonymous or Integrated Authentication.
4. .NET framework 2.0 must be installed on the Deployment Solution computer (this is needed because the tool has been compiled in C# using Visual Studio 2.0)

Command Line Options

Altiris Deployment Server Scheduling Utility version 1.0 Based off axSched.exe using ASDK 1.3

Usage:

axSched [computer/group] [job-name] (options)

Options:

This tool was created by an Altiris Deployment Server user. This was done as an exercise to learn more about how the ASDK for Deployment Solution works, and also to extend custom functionality to existing Altiris tools. This tool was not created by Altiris development, so it is not supported by Altiris or Symantec. As the project is open source I am open to suggestions and would appreciate any code submissions with bug fixes and enhancements.