Contents
1. Summary
What are the tasks performed nightly by NEXThink Portal and Engine?
2. Applies To
The case documented in the present article affects:
- NEXThink Engine 3.0.0 and higher
- NEXThink Portal 3.0.0.4 and higher
3. Night Timeline
Every night, the following tasks are performed:
Local time |
Task |
Affects |
Indicative duration |
Defined in |
22:15 |
Portal backup |
Portal |
< 3 minutes |
/etc/cron.d/portal-crontab |
00:00 |
Engine cleaning and maintenance |
Engine |
15 - 30 minutes |
non-configurable |
01:00 |
Indicators computation |
Portal, Engine |
may vary from several tens minutes to several hours, depending on the number of widgets and their complexity to compute (also depends on the number of Engines) |
collector.timeToCollect parameter of /var/nexthink/portal/conf/portal-general-config.xml |
04:15 |
Engine backup |
Engine |
< 5 minutes |
/etc/cron.d/nxengine-crontab |
Moreover, the Engine license is checked every night at 01:00 UTC (non-configurable).