Guidelines and prerequisites for scheduled tasks

Follow these best practices when scheduling tasks:

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

• Schedule tasks that require large amounts of bandwidth during periods of low network use. For example, downloading data or performing expensive Nmap scans (such as portscans).

• Schedule tasks that might interrupt traffic, such as deploying policies or installing VDB updates, during maintenance windows.

• Leave enough time between dependent tasks. For example, if you schedule a VDB download and install, ensure the download is finished before starting the install.