General Production Monitoring Activities

Once you have set up and configured an application and its jobs, you use the eaDirect Command Center to schedule jobs, manage the production process on a daily basis, and to perform administrative activities related to your eaDirect application.

The Command Center Main Console provides a high-level status of all activity related to eaDirect jobs in the production environment, and is the first screen you see when you log into the Command Center.

You also use the Main Console to schedule, control, and monitor all eaDirect production jobs, including:

·   Setting and changing job schedules; see Scheduling Jobs

·   Monitoring the status of jobs and individual production tasks; see Monitoring Production Jobs, Viewing Job status, and Viewing and Verifying Task Status

·   Starting a job; see also Canceling and Retrying Failed Jobs

·   Viewing job output; see Viewing Job Output

·   Publishing new version sets; see When to Publish New Version Sets

·   Monitoring system services; see Monitoring System Services

Keeping your eaDirect applications running efficiently in an ongoing, live production environment requires regular monitoring and maintenance.

Here are a few of the system monitoring activities you want to perform on a regular basis.

Daily application monitoring tasks:

·   Check the Command Center Status screen to monitor the state of production jobs.

·   Check the administrator email accounts for any eaDirect administrator alert mail. eaDirect generates administrator email if there's a problem passing email notifications to the SMTP host or if email notification is not working properly for some other reason.

Weekly (or more often) application monitoring tasks:

·   Check message log report messages: Activity, Error, and Warning Logs. See Viewing Message Logs.

General system maintenance activities:

·   Run activity reports to review application usage statistics.

·   Maintain the eaDirect database. See Database Administration.