Introducing PBNightly Utility for Power Broker 4.0

Let's imagine that you needed a method of running the basic features such as the Attrib, Delete the tmp files, runs the Fix Corrupted Files, and does the Pack and Re-index but you weren't in the office for a few days and really needed this stuff to get done all on it's own.

Using PowerTools PowerNightly Utility, in combination with your Windows Task Manager, will run these features as per your scheduling.

You can schedule Windows to run PowerNightly at any day, time, or whichever time you wished ( with everyone out of Power Broker 4.0 of course )

PowerTools - PowerNightly will then launch Power Broker 4.0 and then the log in screen will shut down after 5 minutes.



NOTE: 

1)  This procedure needs to be setup on a computer that is on all the time.  If you turn off the computer at night, this procedure will not run.

2)  This procedure needs exclusive database so no one should be in Power Broker 4 when this utility is run

3)  You should NOT run any other nightly utilities while PBNightly is running such as:
A) Scheduled backups
B)  Antivirus Scan/Updates
C)  Scheduled Server or Workstation Hard Drive Defrags
D)  Any other third party scan/check/upgrade
E)   Ensure that you do not have any intense screen savers that use a large amount of memory.


SETUP Instructions:

To set this up, you would go to:
Start
All Programs
Accessories
System Tools
Scheduled Tasks

Click 'Add Scheduled Task' and click on 'Next'.





Click 'Browse'

Choose the Power Broker drive where \BRO is and double click on PBNightly.exe





Select 'Weekly' and click on 'Next'





Select a time of the day where everyone is out of Power Broker and does on conflict with your Power Broker backup of \BRO.  Select the number of days you wish to run this utility.



You will need to authenticate your network connection with the proper username and password.





Once you have added the scheduled task, a way to ensure that everything ran smoothly is to log into PowerTools the next day, and visit the log.



What you should see is PBNightly start, and then after a few minutes, it does the:

READ2 - read write utility
TEMP3 - deletes m/temp files
FIX5 - fix corrupted databases
PACK6 - pack and reindex

We hope you enjoyed a preview of some of the new features we have to offer.

For further details, please feel free to send an email to techsupport@power-broker.com and someone will be happy to assist you.