The KnowledgeTree Task Scheduler

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Setting Up and Managing KnowledgeTree > Administration > Miscellaneous > The KnowledgeTree Task Scheduler

The KnowledgeTree Task Scheduler runs and manages background tasks and batch jobs for the following functionality:

 

Note: This option is not relevant for KnowledgeTreeLive - the hosted, SaaS version of KnowledgeTree Commercial on-premise. View details on the KnowledgeTree Wiki.

 

 

•Document Processor - schedule how often indexing occurs in a recurring cycle.

Note: The Document Processor replaces the old Indexing engine (pre-3.6.x). Unless

otherwise specified, only new documents are indexed at this

frequency, according to a number of documents you have defined per

indexing session. Typically, only new documents are indexed, unless

indexing is set to re-index the entire repository. A high frequency is

recommended as KnowledgeTree's Search relies on efficient indexing.

 

•Index Optimization - optimizes the Indexer; creates a single file out of the multiple temporary files (fragmented data related to the Index) that are created and updated as content is added the Indexes.

Note: Perform Index optimization regularly - typically once a day, or

weekly, depending on how frequently the index is updated.

 

•Periodic Document Expunge - permanently removes all deleted documents.

 

•Database Maintenance - a MySQL-specific database maintenance script that optimizes each table in the database.

 

•OpenOffice test - checks that the OpenOffice service is running and restarts the service if it has stopped. Configure the OpenOffice.org Service in Administration - System Administration - Search and Indexing.

 

•Cleanup Temporary Directory - this is a script that cleans up the multiple, temporary output files that OpenOffice creates when extracting text from various documents. This task is particularly important when KnowledgeTree is installed as the root user, and OpenOffice is running as the root user. In this case, the Apache user does not have permissions to allow the indexing scripts, which run under the Apache user, to clean up these temporary files.

 

•Disk Usage and Folder Utilization Statistics - you may view and edit settings for this component in Administration - System Administration - General Settings.

 

•Refresh Index Statistics

 

•Refresh resource dependencies  

 

•Bulk Download Queue - runs bulk downloads in the background; configure settings in Administration - System Configuration - General Settings.        

 

•Document Alerts

 

Note: These tasks are run by KnowledgeTree's Scheduler service on Windows and on Linux.

 

Figure: Managing the Task Scheduler - Use the bottom scroll bar view the Task Scheduler options (see screenshot below)

 

 

Figure: Managing the Task Scheduler - displaying available actions: change task frequency, run on next iteration, and disable/enable tasks

 

 

 

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