Execution Frequency for Policies

A policy can run at one of the following frequencies:

• Once per computer—This policy runs on any computer in the current scope one time only. If the Automatically re-run policy on failure checkbox is enabled, you can configure the policy to retry up to 10 times after a policy fails. If a log entry exists for a given computer in the policy's history, the policy will not run again for that computer until the log is flushed.

• Once per user per computer—This policy runs once per distinct username per distinct computer. If Self Service has user logins enabled, the policy will run once through Self Service on each computer the user logs in to.

• Once per user—This policy runs only once per distinct username. It runs through Self Service as long as Self Service has user logins enabled. The policy will only run once per username in the scope, not once per username per computer.

• Once every day—This policy runs if the scoped computer has not submitted a policy log to Jamf Pro in the past day (24 hours).

• Once every week—This policy runs if the scoped computer has not submitted a policy log to Jamf Pro in the past seven days (168 hours).

• Once every month—This policy runs if the scoped computer has not submitted a policy log to Jamf Pro in the past 30 days (720 hours).

• Ongoing—This policy runs each time the specified trigger takes place.