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Create a Scheduled Jobs Policy

Recommendation: Perform scheduled scans on a regular basis, typically during off-peak usage times. Scheduled scans are highly encouraged for users with defined exclusions in their Realtime Monitor policy.

Note: You cannot use a Scheduled Scan policy to scan mapped drives.

To create a Scheduled Scan policy

1. Select the Policy Management tab.
2. Select Antivirus or PestPatrol from the Application menu.
3. Select Schedule Jobs from the Type menu.

   The Scheduled Jobs tabs appear on the right side of the page.

4. Click New and enter a policy name in the description field of the Policy tab.
5. Click the Scan tab and choose the appropriate settings for this policy.
6. Repeat this process for the Selection, Schedule, Directories, and Exclude Directories tabs.

   On Windows Only: When setting schedule scan options, the CPU utilization correlates to CPU resource availability. For example, you can select Low for scans scheduled to take place during normal work hours when CPU resources are likely required for other work related tasks and should not be consumed by scanning activities. For scans scheduled during evenings and weekends, when resource requirements are normally lower, the Normal or High CPU setting would be more appropriate.

7. Click Apply to save the policy.
8. Click Assign in the Policies area of the page.

   The Assign Branches dialog appears.

9. Select the branch to assign this policy to and click the right arrow.

   Note: If this is an initial scan policy to locate pests in order to create an Exclusion policy, assign the policy to the uppermost level of your Organization tree (the root level).

10. Click Assign Branches.

    The policy is assigned to the specified branches.