Atera’s Patch Management and IT Automation lets you perform a variety of crucial support tasks including patching, software bundle installation, Windows version upgrades, disk management, maintenance, automated scripting, and more. An automation profile with any of the above tasks can be scheduled to run one-time, weekly, monthly, or flexibly.

For information on creating a profile, adding tasks, assigning the profile, and more, see Automate patch management via automation profiles

Schedule an automation profile

You can add as many schedules to the automation profile as you want.

Schedules can be edited by clicking the edit icon (), or deleted by clicking the delete icon () next to the schedule.

Note:

• Using multiple profiles with 'Run the profile on newly installed agents' on the same site can cause conflicts. Ensure tasks don’t overlap and that scripts from different profiles can run at the same time.
• Using multiple profiles with 'Run the profile on newly installed agents' on the same customer can cause conflicts. Ensure tasks don’t overlap and that scripts from different profiles can run at the same time.

To schedule the automation profile:

1. Once you've created an automation profile, click + Add schedule.

2. Click the Select frequency dropdown. Then select daily, weekly, monthly, or annually.

3. Configure the rest of the schedule. Then click Save.

The schedule is added to the automation profile.

4. If you haven't done so already, select the execution settings 

5. Click Save to save the profile.

The profile will run on the assigned devices at the scheduled time. You can review the next execution time in the side panel.

Note: Profiles with 'Device local time' selected will not display the next scheduled execution time under 'Next execution time'. This is because the profile will run at different times, according to each local device's associated time zone.