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  • 1.  Schedule trigger on boot or on logon

    Posted Apr 16, 2009 06:53 AM
    Hey all,

    I have set schedules that are supposed to work - on boot, or on logon.  Its to do a dell BIOS update.  However it doesnt seem to work at all?

    Also is there a way to get these to only run once - not keep changing the BIOS setting over and over again?

    Many thanks

    Dan


  • 2.  RE: Schedule trigger on boot or on logon

    Posted Apr 16, 2009 08:21 AM
    I don't believe DS has a built in way of doing what you are asking.  How I've done this in the past is to write a script that drops a TXT file onto the client machine after it has successfully run.  The script then checks to see if the file exists, if it does, it doesn't call the bios update, if it doesn't then it executes the BIOS update.  The other way of doing this would be to use "conditions" in the DS.  DS would then look at the hardware and based on the condition execute the steps you have for each condition.  (i.e. A Dell Latitude E6400 with a BIOS of A01 would be updated to A02, however, a Dell Latitude D505 would be passed to a dummy script that would do nothing). 


  • 3.  RE: Schedule trigger on boot or on logon

    Posted Apr 16, 2009 10:59 AM

    What your looking to do sounds like more of an NS thing than DS. In fact for Dell clients NS has built in BIOS upgrade jobs.