Guidelines for scheduled tasks

This section provides general scheduling guidelines. Refer to Scheduled task types for task-specific guidelines and prerequisites.

When to run tasks

Follow these guidelines when scheduling tasks:

  • Automatically scheduled tasks: Review automatically scheduled tasks to make sure they run at the right time for your environment.

  • Traffic inspection and flow: Schedule tasks that might interrupt traffic during maintenance windows.

Scheduling task sequences

This table lists outcomes that require multiple tasks in sequence. Leave enough time so that each task can finish before the next begins.

Outcomes requiring multiple scheduled tasks

Outcome

Tasks

VDB update

  1. Download Latest Update

  2. Install Latest Update