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It depends on when the computer (or VM or booting operating system) is active and on the campus network, and whether you want patching to compete with your trying to get other work done. In general, if you don't want to be interrupted, choose an EndOfDay or Overnight schedule, and leave your computer powered on, not in sleep mode, and connected to the campus network.
If you take your laptop computer home most nights, choose instead a schedule that runs during the day at a time when you may be away from your desk (e.g., Convo, CommonTime).
If your laptop computer is seldom on campus at all, choose the Next Check In NextCheckIn schedule which will try to run every time you are back on the campus network if you miss the scheduled times. But Next Check In NextCheckIn can be very annoying, so choose it only if none of the other schedules works for you.
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KBOX patching cannot run if a computer is in sleep mode at the scheduled time. Most campus computers are configured to go into sleep mode after a period of inactivity, usually 4 hours. But if a patch schedule step runs at 4am6am, and you left your computer on at work at 6pm, the computer will be sleeping by 4am 6am when patching is supposed to start.
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- In the power management settings on your computer, disable the computer's sleep mode entirely (but this wastes energy).
- In the power management settings in your computer operating system or BIOS, schedule the computer to wake up about 20 minutes before patching is scheduled to start.
- Have your computer configured to accept a Wake-on-LAN request when it is sleeping (which is not the default), and the KBOX will send a Wake-on-LAN packet about 10-15 minutes before patching is scheduled to start (ask the ITS HelpDesk x5999 for help with this).
- Launch a "keep awake" utility on your computer when you leave, so it never becomes inactive and so never sleeps. For Windows, we have had good results with a free utility called Caffeine, from Zhorn Software.
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