Sun Connection 1.1.1 job confirmation

Question

I've created a recurring job with a policy that says "yes" to everything except "file confilcts" and a profile that includes a baseline. I've also white listed a baseline for a group of clients the job applies to.
When the job runs in simulation mode, it requires user intervention to confirm the install of the baseline patches and a second confirm to approve the reboot.
We want to run the job after business hours when no one is available to confirm anything and then we will check the status in the morning.
Is this confirmation behavior special to the simulation or will it also require a confirm when the job runs to actually deploy the baseline? Is there a way to "pre-confirm"?

Answer 1

Thanks for the tip. That helped put me on the right track. For some reason, I didn�t associate the term �Notifications� with �Reboot the system�.
Having that new association in my vocabulary, I went back to the documentation for sections dealing with effective management of confirmations and simulations and jobs. I didn�t find much to address my specific needs for unattended automation (i.e. Enterprise 1.0 Users�s Guide section 12 Common Job Operations), but I did discover a nice feature that I haven�t found any documentation for.
If you run a job simulation and answer yes to all simulations, after the job has completed, you can right click on the completed job task in the task window you get a drop down menu with an item "copy policy". That menu item will let you create a new policy that includes all the confirmations you just completed manually. You can then apply the new policy to the scheduled job and the confirmations will be performed by the policy automatically when it is actually deployed.
That helps create a fully automated job that can be scheduled for running unattended after hours. Forgive me if I missed the section of the documentation that describes this, but if not, I hope that feature and technique might be included in the next version. It�s a very handy feature.