Start a task on a specified system

Starts a noninteractive IBM® Systems Director task on a specified system. Noninteractive tasks are tasks that do not require user input.

Requirements
This event action has the following requirements:
  • The specified system must have Common Agent installed.
  • The specified task must be a noninteractive task.
  • The task that you want to use must be available in the IBM Systems Director Web interface before you can specify the task for this action.
Important: Some tasks have hardware or software requirements and cannot be performed on a given system. Give careful consideration to an event automation plan that uses this event action before associating it with a given system or group.
Result
The task is started on the specified system.
Example
Consider an environment where you have two physical systems and one of the physical system is running three virtual servers. You can create an event automation plan that detects a critical Predictive Failure Analysis® (PFA) event on a physical system. Using this action, you can run a previously created noninteractive task that migrates the running workload of the virtual servers hosted on the affected physical server to the second physical server.
Note: You can create noninteractive tasks using the Command Automation task.
Related tasks

Creating an event action to activate in an event automation plan
Related reference

Create Action window: Start a task on a specified system

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