18 Maintenance Tasks

Chapter 17, "RPASCE Health Check Tasks" addresses the automatic maintenance that can be performed on the RPASCE application. This chapter describes the periodic maintenance tasks that must be performed by an administrator. These actions are required to keep the system running smoothly over a long period of time.

Clean Up Old Workbooks

It is possible to list all the workbooks in the application and determine which ones are old. "Managing Workbooks Using wbmgr" describes using the option Manage Workspaces to list all the workbooks in the application. From this output, all the old and obsolete workbooks can be found. These old workbooks can be removed using the same Managing Workbooks task. Removing only the workbook and keeping the associated segment can help to rebuild the workbook later using the same selections if required. Segments without their workbooks do not require much space. Alternately, the entire segment can be removed using the Managing Segments task.

Clean Up Old Administration Tasks

The tasks in the OAT dashboard grow over time and take up valuable system resources. It is recommended that an Admin user periodically purge unused admin tasks. The task to perform the purge operation is described in "Purge Tasks from Task Status Dashboard Task".

Performance Diagnostic Tool

The performance diagnostic tool contains valuable options to analyze system resources. See "Analyzing Workbook Performance" on how to efficiently find workbooks that can be cleaned up.