Creating Update Tasks

You can add an update task used to update one or more device groups.

1. Expand the Route Manager slider, and click Devices.
2. Select the Device Route Set Updates tab and click Update.
3. In the Add Update Task pane, complete the following fields:

   Name	Description
   Name field	The task name.
   Notes field	(Optional) Text that describes the update task.

4. Select a device group from the Route Set Devices list and click Add.
   The device group appears in the Devices to Update table. If you decide to remove the device group that you just added, you can select it and click Remove to return it to the Route Set Devices list.
5. Repeat the previous step for each device group that you want to update.
6. Click OK. The Update Task Details dialog box displays with a progress bar that indicates the status of the update process.

   Note:

   While an update task is in progress, the target device group is locked from all other updates.

   Note:

   If a failure occurs, select from the following failure policies:

   • Roll back all successfully updated devices
   • Abort the entire job
   • Skip the failed device update and continue

   Note:

   If the update fails because a targeted device group is busy or locked, an error message appears.
   Once the update task process is finished, the task appears in the Update Tasks table in the Device Route Set Updates tab, and indicates whether the update task process was a success or failure. If the update failed and you selected rollback as the action policy, you can click Retry Failures in the Update Task Details dialog box to try the update again. Otherwise, exit the dialog box and rollback the update. See the Roll Back an Update Task in this chapter for more information.
7. Select the successful update task in the Update Tasks table and click Commit to remove the locks on the associated device group(s).

   Note:

   You must own the lock on the route set to commit the update(s) to the device group.
   The update is committed on the target device group and the update task is removed from the Update Tasks table and appears in the Update Task History tab.