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Introducing PowerTools for Power Broker 4.0
Ahhh, good old PBMech.
It's been a most excellent tool for users using Power Broker 3.0
Here is what PowerTools for Power Broker Version 4.0 has
to offer.
PowerTools offers a new user i.d. security feature that allows
an administrator to choose who will be able to run PowerTools
and all of the utilities built into it.
This can be set in Power Broker by giving the user a 'Y' for
number 51.
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Here are some of the familiar and not so familiar
PowerTools features.
The Upgrade Completion Check will ensure that seconds after
applying your upgrade, that you have completed your upgrade
without any issues.
If you have been using Power Broker for years, you have probably
seen the message ' Cannot reset hidden files'. These files
will be dealt with with PowerTools as well as freeing up any
files with 'Read-Only' attributes.
The next feature cleans up some of the files that Power Broker
needs in some of the typical day to day use, that build up
after years of use, that are no longer required.
Have you ever been locked out because of too many users?
Well now PowerTools allows you to run the 'Reset User In Use
Counters' procedure and clears out all 'Y's located in the user
tables. In the past, when Power Broker locked out all
users in an office, you would have used PBMech and run a Pack
and Re-index. This is no longer needed. If your a
five user office or a 50 user office and the power goes out due
to a storm outside, you would simply run this utility to clean
out the user codes and be up and running in minutes.
You would still need to run the Pack and Re-Index on a regular
basis, but only to test the integrity of your databases.
Power Broker 4.0 comes equipped with a new and updated Fix
Corrupted Database utility to match our Visual Foxpro platform,
and PowerTools is able to launch this tool for you.
We all know the well known Pack and Re-index utility. The
difference is, once the pack completes, Power Broker will now
exit five minutes after being launched. Yes you heard me
correctly, it will close all on it's own after five minutes
allowing your local tech to not have to worry about open files
and locked users. The pack would complete, and sit on the
log in screen. Should you NOT type in your password in
five minutes, it will close out for you.
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PowerTools offers a few different methods of launching some of
it's options.
1)
You can click on the button to launch the utility...
2)
You can select a few of the utilities by check marking the boxs
provided...
3)
Or you can choose the 'Select All' feature that check marks all
of the top six features.
Once PowerTools runs it's main six functions, the screen displays which utility is
running at the current moment.
Once you reach the Power Broker 4.0 login screen, you know all
is well and you can type in your password and begin to work.
If you happen to forget where your Power Broker is installed,
PowerTools has a small window at the bottom that reminds you
where things are. This is handy if you receive your key
file and your not sure where to save your Winzip file.
Yup, and it does come with a tool that unzips your key file too.
Have you ever wondered when your last Pack and Re-index was or
who did it last?
PowerTools comes with a log file that shows you who, what and
when any of the PowerTools features have been run and completed.
( I will tell you more what PowerNightly is in a moment )
It comes with a Log Code Definitions page so it's easy to
understand what the codes mean.
If you ever decide to add another insurer to your book of
business, and need to unzip a down.zip file that has been
emailed to you? You can simply click on this button to unzip it
for you.
It even has it's own basic task scheduler built into it.
Once a time has been selected, a window will let you know when
it started, and how long until it starts.
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