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How Do I Use Scripts to run Timed and Scheduled Tasks on Agents?

I have heard that there is a way to run a script to do certain things on the Agent on a timed and scheduled basis. Can anybody point me to more information on that?

Are there any limits, in other words can I run long-running scripts on the Agent with this technique?

From the microsoft.public.mom newsgroup
You'll need a type of event processing rule that we usually call a "timed event processing rule." Create a new event processing rule, and select one of the "Schedule every..." providers. Add the script you want to launch as one of the rule's responses, and configure it to run on the agent computers, not the consolidator.

How long would the script be running? It should not be used to continuously monitor a server. You really don't want to tie up MOM's limited number of script threads for too long. After 5 minutes or so, queued scripts will begin to time out and raise alerts.