Scheduling on Windows

Before scheduling downloads from the cloud service, make sure that the Windows Task Scheduler service is started. To check this:
  1. Open the Windows Services tool.
  2. Scroll down to Task Scheduler.
    1. If the status is Started, you need do nothing.
    2. Otherwise, click Start or Resume to start the service.

To schedule the log file download:

Steps

  1. Open the Windows Scheduled Tasks tool.
  2. Select Add/Create Scheduled Task.
  3. Work through the Scheduled Task Wizard. Note that the steps involved may differ for each Windows version.
    1. The network user name and password you provide is not the user name and password you set up in the cloud portal.
    2. The following settings are required as part of Actions to successfully run the download script:
      1. Program: <full path>\perl.exe.
      2. Additional Arguments: <full path>\log_export_siem_v2_0.pl --cfgfile <full path>\log_export_siem.cfg
      3. Start in: enter the full path to the script.
    3. Mark the Open the properties.... checkbox, then click Finish.
  4. Define the task:
    1. To run as the user defined in Create a new administrator contact for Forcepoint storage, using the password defined for that user.
    2. To download the file to a designated local destination.
  5. Click OK.