Symantec Management Platform (Notification Server)

When defining my collections to install/upgrade software, should I assign the software delivery task to a collection that says "All Computers At Site X" or one configured to contain "All Computers With Software Version < X".

I have one computer that failed in my "All Computers At Site X" collection. My question is, will it ever run the task again or since it has run once, even though it failed, it'll never run again?

If I assign the software delivery task to my "All Computers With Software Version < X" does that mean that it'll keen trying the task until the PC drops out of the collection by virue of the fact that it hopefully will have succeeded one day?

Thanks

If you running the tasks as scheduled (forced), and you have it set to run once, it will only run once, even it that one time is a failure. So, depending on your goals, I would create the collection of machines without version x, and run the schedule daily. The collection update policy that runs will help update the collection, although that data is driven by inventory solution, so that is dependant on how often you run an inventory scan.

You may want to investigate the use of Task Server, which by the way is the core deployment function in version 7. It gives you a better graphical view of what has been executed and you can reschedule failed tasks.