Minutes Past hour value in scheduling updates from panorama
Question
What is Minutes Past hour value in scheduling updates from panorama?
Environment
Panorama pushing dynamic updates to firewall.
Answer
When configuring a schedule in panorama to push wildfire updates to firewalls.
- Go to Panorama -> Device-deployment -> Dynamic Updates -> Schedules -> Add
- Select type to wildfire
- Recurrence -> Every (1/15/30/60) minutes. (As per requirement)
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Selecting Every 15 Mins in the recurrence section, an additional value to configure Minutes Past Quarter-Hour is presented
When providing a value in Minutes past Quarter-hour, instead of job starting at 15 minutes, it will start at '15 minute mark' + 'Minute past Quarter hour' value.
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Selecting Every 30 Mins, an additional value to configure Minutes Past Half-Hour is presented
When providing a value in Minutes past half-hour, instead of job starting at 30 minutes, it will start at '30 minute mark' + 'Minute past Half-Hour' value.
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Selecting Every hour, an additional value to configure Minutes Past Hour is presented
When providing a value in Minutes past hour, instead of job starting at 60 minutes, it will start at '60 minute mark' + 'Minute past Hour' value.
This was introduced to prevent starting all the jobs at the same time. It allows for few minutes difference between different deployment jobs.