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Can I see the status of a scheduled deployment that has started?
Shawn Anderson
asked this on November 15, 2010 16:13
I've scheduled a deployment to start, and the start time has passed. Can I see the status?
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In version 1.1 you can see the deployment in the list of deployments (on the left of the console.) In a future version we will be adding a way to see the status of any scheduled deployments directly on the installer view.
You can also see the status of the deployment if you set the installer to use notify addresses, this will send you an e-mail when the deployment finishes.
I just did my first scheduled deployment tonight and noticed an issue. I had set the schedule for 6pm, took a look at 6:05 and there was no indication that the deploy was happening. So I went ahead and right-clicked on the scheduled job and selected deploy now. Once it started I got a bunch of "Target computer is busy with another deployment" messages as well as a batch that started to deploy. I quickly aborted the queued machines and let the in-progress ones finish.
After it was done I went back to the main deploy screen and realized I could do a refresh, at which point the in-progress scheduled job appeared.
I suggest a program a check so stupid people like me don't try and double-run a job. =) Also, one that auto-refreshes the deployment window when a schedule job starts would be nice to have as well.
I would suggest that the "stupid people" are us programmers :-O. This will be fixed in 1.4 (which goes into beta next week) where the you don't need to refresh to see deployments that have been created by a schedule. It also has some other ways to show the status of schedules to avoid this exact problem.
Well, that's debatable. =) I shouldn't have got click-happy and had more patience, but glad to hear you guys are on top of it.
And again, you guys rock!
No problem, it's this kind of feedback that keeps us on our toes.