Updated Groups in Jobs

If you set a job to start at a single future date, any change in the host list of the group is reflected in the list of hosts that run the job.

For example, you select a group of five hosts to receive a job scheduled for the first of the next month. Before the job runs, you add two hosts to the group. When the first of the month comes, the job is sent to the seven hosts in the selected group.

If you set a job to a recurring schedule, you can add hosts to the group, and the next run of the job will be sent to the new host list. You cannot remove hosts from the group.

Say you reschedule the job of the previous example to be a recurring job for the first of each month. Before the next month, you want to remove four hosts from the group. When you attempt to do so, you receive an error message. You must delete the recurring job before you can edit the group.