Scheduled Scan time Option enhancement request
Updated: 27 Aug 2009 | 9 comments
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In Review
Currently the options for scheduled scan times are not very robust. We would like the option of being able to select first monday of month, second monday of month, third monday of the month, instead of just a specific date of the month (for monthly scan times).
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Scheduled Scan time option enhancement requested
We are looking for the same feature.
This idea should have been included in the product since day one
Being able to schedule a monthly scan on the third Saturday of every month, for example, is something that should have been included in the product during the initial planning of SEPM. Maybe it was, but had to be postponed for some reason. Now that SEP has been out for nearly two years I would think it would be time to add this feature into SEPM.
t is a good idea. Many
t is a good idea. Many organization having holidays like 1&3 Saturday of every month is holyday or they may have workload less in some specified days in month .In such occasions if like this scanning available it will be very useful.
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Do you want this schedule
Do you want this schedule ability for workstations, servers or both?
If you had the capability to run a scan when the user is not using the computer and for it to pause when they start using it again, would this reduce the need to schedule scans on workstations and laptops?
Jim Waggoner Director Product Management, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Enterprise Security Group, Symantec
We are looking for this
We are looking for this ability for both (all end user laptops and desktops). We have active scans run once a week on a specific day of the week, and monthly full scans are run on a specific day of the month. There are some months where these fall on the same day. Our helpdesk gets many complaints when they take place on the same day.. We don't want to have to manually go into the console and readjust every month where there would be a conflict. The ability you mention to not have it run if the user is using the computer is attractive as long as it doesn't mean they won't ever get scanned. However, having both the ability to control scan times AND the ability to not have the scan run if the user is using the PC would definitely improve SEP's scanning options.
Add me to this group...
Being able to scan some clients once every 2 weeks (for example) would do wonders for users acceptance of your product and help take the heat off admins like myself for "slowing down everyone's computer".
My blog: http://www.scottfromsecurity.com/blog
I posted a similar idea for
I posted a similar idea for the exact same thing a while back. I want this to be included in the upcoming release very badly to help with our backups.
See my other idea post about the same thing:
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/idea/feature-request-scheduled-scans
I just called to see if this
I just called to see if this specific function was possible as well.
Update from support
I called support looking for this feature and I was refferd to this post. This is such a simple thing to implement why has it not been done? Even windows scheduled tasks allows you to do this.
I did try to find out if you could run RTVSCAN from the command line through scheduled tasks but apparently this is not possible.
Symantec PLEASE put this in your next MR.
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