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Plans provide control over the scope and schedule of deployments to target appliances.

Each plan is created for a specific set of target appliances and is deployed based on either a on-time or recurring schedule. Plans must match the product and language of the target appliances.

When a plan is deployed, Deep Discovery Director (Internal Network Analytics Version) sends instructions to the target appliances on when to download required files, and when to execute the plan.

There are two kinds of plan schedules listed on separate tabs in the Plans screen:

Schedule

Description

One-time plans

Single-use plans which execute immediately or according to a future schedule

There are three types of one-time plan deployments:

  • Hotfix/ Critical patch/ Firmware

  • Virtual Analyzer images

  • Configuration replication

Recurring plans

Plans which execute based on a recurring schedule

Recurring plans only support the Configuration replication deployment.