McAfee AVDCDE-AA-AA User Guide - Page 206

Creating and Configuring Scheduled Tasks • Monthly. This runs your task once each month on the day and at the time you specify. Enter the time in the leftmost text box, then enter the day of the month on which you want the task to run. Š NOTE: Enter all scheduled times, except for the hourly time interval, using a 24-hour clock. If you want the task to run at 9:30 p.m., for example, enter 21:30. 5. To have this task run within a random interval of the time you set, select the Enable randomization checkbox, then enter a time period of up to eight hours in the Randomize Time Window text box. Unless you've set this task to run at startup, you can use this feature to reduce network traffic and other system overhead that might result from many computers running scan or update operations at the same time. The task will run at a random point within the time "window" you specify. The window centers on the time you've scheduled for the task to run. If, for example, you set this task to run daily at 15:00, then you selected Enable randomization and specified a time window of one hour, the task would run at any point in the period between 14:30 and 15:30. You may set a window of up to 480 minutes, or eight hours. 6. You have now set a schedule for your task and readied it to run at the scheduled time. Click OK to close the Task Properties dialog box, or click Apply to save your settings without closing the dialog box. Click Cancel to close the dialog box without saving your changes. Š NOTE: To start your task, your computer must be on and the VirusScan Console must be running. If your computer is off or if the Console is not running at the time your task should start, the task will start at the next scheduled time. You can minimize the Console so that appears only as an icon in the Windows taskbar. If you plan to have the VirusScan application run a scan task on an unattended computer, you must also configure the program to start its scan operation automatically. See Step 5 on page 213 for details. Checking task status The VirusScan Console window summarizes the time and date when your tasks last ran and when you have scheduled them to start again-look for this information to the right of each listed task. You can also see a summary of how many files each task scanned, whether it found any malicious agents, and what actions it took. 206 McAfee VirusScan Anti-Virus Software