Creating a Conditional Job Using Tasks

Created: 14 Jun 2010 | Updated: 09 Sep 2010 | 4 comments

Steven.Riley Symantec Employee Accredited Certified

This video demonstrates a basic conditional task that works on a client, makes the client "do some work" then the client reports back based on the work it did. The condition executes the if else statement based on the condition that comes back from the client.

Please Note:
This video is best viewed in full screen mode by selecting the square icon in the lower right hand corner of the video player.

Video Upload:

conditionaljob_scu.mp4

Video Filed Under:

Endpoint Management, Symantec Management Platform (Notification Server), Agents, Tip/How to

Login or register to post comments
Comments RSS Feed

Comments 4 Comments • Jump to latest comment

noodleNT

Creating a Conditional Job Using Tasks - Comment:09 Feb 2011 : Link

I am using the "Control Service State" task to poll what the service status is and then trying to use a conditional task to run a task if the service is not running or not. However the conditional step will toss an error. Is this a known issue?

Error:

An unknown exception was thrown.

Show raw exception message

System.Exception: The parameter name "b9b60c41-59f0-449f-9298-2e92b6810924_ServiceState" is not in our input list and this condition cannot be evaluated at Altiris.TaskManagement.Common.Jobs.BaseConditionEntry.Evaluate(ParameterValueCollection inputParameterValues) at Altiris.TaskManagement.Common.Jobs.PreviousReturnConditionConfig.EvaluateCondition(ParameterValueCollection inputParameterValues) at Altiris.TaskManagement.Jobs.Conditions.ServerPreviousReturnValueTask.OnExecute(IServerTaskExecutionInstance instance) at Altiris.TaskManagement.ServerTasks.BaseServerTask.OnExecute(ITaskExecutionEngine engine, IServerTaskExecutionInstance instance, TaskInstanceRequest request) at Altiris.TaskManagement.ServerTasks.BaseServerTask.Execute(ITaskExecutionEngine engine, IBaseTaskExecutionInstance instance, TaskInstanceRequest request) at Altiris.TaskManagement.Common.Execution.Engine.TaskEngineExecutionThread.ExecuteTaskHandler()