Send-FogImage

SYNOPSIS

Start or schedule a deploy task for a fog host

SYNTAX

now (Default)

Send-FogImage [-hostId <Object>] [<CommonParameters>]

schedule

Send-FogImage [-hostId <Object>] [-StartAtTime <DateTime>] [<CommonParameters>]

DESCRIPTION

Starts or schedules a deploy task of the currently assigned image on a host

EXAMPLES

EXAMPLE 1

Deploy-FogImage -hostID "1234"

Will queue a deploy task for host 1234 right now

EXAMPLE 2

Push-FogImage -hostID "1234" -StartAtTime (Get-date 8pm)

Using the alias name for this command, Will schedule a deploy task for the host of id 1234 at 8pm the same day

EXAMPLE 3

Send-FogImage -hostID "1234" -startAtTime ((Get-Date 8pm).adddays(2)).ToDateTime($null)

Using another alias for this command, will schedule a deploy task for the host 1234 at 8pm 2 days from now.
i.e.
if today was friday, this would schedule it for sunday at 8pm.

PARAMETERS

-hostId

the hostid to start the deploy task for

Type: Object
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-StartAtTime

The time to start the deploy task, use Get-date to create the required datetime object

Type: DateTime
Parameter Sets: schedule
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

CommonParameters

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -InformationAction, -InformationVariable, -OutVariable, -OutBuffer, -PipelineVariable, -Verbose, -WarningAction, and -WarningVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters.

INPUTS

OUTPUTS

NOTES

The verbs used in the main name and alias names are meant to provide better usability as someone may search for approved powershell verbs
when looking for this functionality or may simply look for deploy as that is the name of the task in fog.
It just happens to be an approved powershell verb too

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