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# About the Run Times and Maintenance Tab

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The Run Times and Maintenance tab of the Options dialog box is used to globally set times when tasks and maintenance routines should run. This ensures tasks do not conflict with other automated processes such as backup or data warehousing routines.

NOTE:

It is also possible to customise the run-times at task level — see About the Schedule Tool . However, the task must respect the global settings set in this tab.

The dialog box contains two radio buttons which allow the following options to be selected:

Schedule Run Times

|  | Selecting the Schedule Run Times option enables the King Task Centre engine run times to be set

|  | Run times are selectable in blocks of 30 minutes, with 48 blocks being shown for each day

|  | Permitted run time blocks are coloured blue and Disallowed run time blocks are coloured white

|  | Single blocks may be toggled between Permitted time and Disallowed time by clicking on them with the left mouse button

|  | A section of blocks may be selected by holding down the left mouse button on the first block, dragging the pointer along the row and then releasing the button at the required block

|  | Whole days may be toggled between blue and white by clicking on the day

|  | The same 30 minute block for each day may be selected using the raised block button at the top of the table

Schedule Maintenance

|  | Selecting the Schedule Maintenance option enables the times to be set during which Maintenance Routines will automatically be run.

|  | During this period maintenance is carried out on the King Task Centre database to keep it optimised. Any Tasks due to run during the maintenance period will be run immediately after maintenance is complete.

|  | Maintenance times are selectable in blocks of 30 minutes, with 48 blocks being shown for each day.

|  | Maintenance time blocks are coloured blue with a white cross on and Permitted time blocks are coloured blue.

|  | Single blocks may be toggled between Maintenance time and Permitted time by clicking on them with the left button mouse.

|  | The same 30 minute block for each day may be selected using the raised block button at the top of the table.

NOTE:

|  | Maintenance may be scheduled during Disallowed Task run times. Clicking on the white coloured Disallowed time block with the Schedule Maintenance option selected adds a blue cross to the block.

|  | It may prove beneficial to exclude the database files inside the iwdb folder from the system backup, as these files are backed up by the King Task Centre maintenance routine. Consider including the ‘backup’ folder in the system backup as this will include the backup files produced.

|  | In the event that many Tasks are being run at high frequencies, then the log files can grow quite large. Consider reducing the log interval if relevant, this will optimise the storage requirement and log retrieval time.

To manage instances where Tasks are running when the maintenance is scheduled to start, use the following parameter to set a time period to delay maintenance being run:

|  | Force maintenance initialisation timeout — Checking this option allows you to set a delay time period as described above using a combination of the following:

|  | Number — Allows you to set a number using the up and down arrows.

|  | Time — Provides options of Day(s), Hour(s), Minute(s) and Second(s).

A label at the bottom of the dialog box states the server time zone being used.

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