Hi All,
Many years ago I wrote a feature for FOG 0.28 which allowed a scheduled task to cancel other tasks.
I am now evaluating FOG 1.2, and would like to know if and how I can get the change incorporated into the mainline FOG code (or as some kind of plugin).
The problem the feature solves is that if I scheduled a virus scan at 1am, but some machines fail to wake-up-on-LAN, then when the users boot the machine later in the morning, the machine proceeds with the virus scan then, with no way of avoiding it, save going into FOG and cancelling the task.
So I wrote a cancellation task, which I schedule for 3am. Then, any Virus scan task that has not run by 3am is automatically cancelled, so the users could use the machine when they come in.
While I only implemented the UI to support a canccellation task for the virus scan, the cancellation task can be applied to any other type of scheduled task.
Any and all comments are welcome.
Cheers!
Nik