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Schedule a DMM Storage Task

In the previous chapter, you used DMM Director to create a template and a DNA file. Your template specifies all the users, settings, applications, files, and folders that you want store to the DNA file. By creating a DMM Storage task, you ask CA DMM to create a revision at a specified time. The revision contains the following reports:

• Edits that are made to the template.
• Edits that are made to the items you specified, the template to store in the DNA file (settings, and so on).

If you did not make any edits, a new revision is created indicating that DMM Always Current Scheduler ran at the specified time.

To schedule a DMM storage task, follow these steps:

1. Start DMM Always Current Scheduler from the Start menu.

   The DMM Always Current Scheduler opens.

2. Click Next and follow the tasks in the wizard.

   The wizard asks you to do the following:

   • Create a task and identify the DNA you want to store.
   • Specify details about the task, including the name of the template, and the name of the user under which this task runs.

     Note: When specifying the name of the user under which the task runs, CA DMM uses values from the registry to provide the user name. Be sure that the information is correct (user name, including domain, and password) or the job will not run. Also, if you are required to change your password at regular intervals, you must change the password for the task. The scheduled task will fail to run until you change the password.

   • Specify how often the task runs.
   • When the task should run
3. Click Finish after you review the details about the task.

   The first time the task runs, it creates the specified DNA file. At the next scheduled run it creates a revision to the DNA file.

   When the task runs, it displays a dialog that lets you choose to reschedule the task or cancel it. If you choose to reschedule, DMM Always Current Scheduler opens and you can choose an alternate time. If you choose cancel, the task does not run until its next scheduled time.

Note: The DMM Always Current Scheduler creates an XML file (with the .dmx extension) that contains the settings. By default it stores the file in your My Documents directory. You can open this file using DMM Options Editor and make changes if you like.