Question
Notification Server sets up a number of Scheduled Tasks that run at various times and intervals. What are the default core Notification Server tasks, what do they do and when do they run by default?
Answer
Notification Server Core Scheduled Items:
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NAME = Solution Center Schedule
DESCRIPTION = Solution Center Configuration Settings
At 9:00 AM every day, starting Wednesday, 1 January 2003"
GUID="{e8136a00-759c-4471-addc-b1d9e58cb5bd}"
NAME = Internal Licensing Refresh Item
DESCRIPTION = This item refreshes any licensing status on a schedule
Every 30 minute(s) from 9:00 AM for 24 hour(s) every day, starting Wednesday, 1 January 2003"
GUID="{55B9206A-E324-4e52-955E-D3F86461E3F5}"
NAME = New Resource Collection Update Schedule
DESCRIPTION = Update in use collections when new resources have been created.
Every 5 minute(s) from 2:00 AM for 24 hour(s) every day, starting Wednesday, 1 January 2003
GUID="{C1AA60E3-43CF-49b8-A7CB-8531B06BF871}"
NAME = Policy Changed Collection Update Schedule
DESCRIPTION = Update in use collections when one or more policies have been created or modified.
Every 5 minute(s) from 2:04 AM for 24 hour(s) every day, starting Wednesday, 1 January 2003
GUID="{7838FF56-A02B-465e-9C32-0307E32F0A47}"
NAME = Always Refresh Collection Update Schedule
DESCRIPTION = Update all in use collections
At 2:00:00 AM every 1 days, starting Wednesday, 1 January 2003
GUID="{EA126D92-22A9-489b-A603-BD572EF5CCB8}"
NAME = Collection Delta Update Schedule
DESCRIPTION = Update all in use collections using the delta update method
Every 5 minutes from 2:01 AM for 24 hour(s) every day, starting Wednesday, 1 January 2003
GUID="{4AF92477-36C4-4b8b-861B-CA5DAE69520A}"
NAME = Machine Usage Generation
DESCRIPTION = This item generates machine usage inventory.
At 3:00 AM every day, starting Wednesday, 1 January 2003
GUID="4754FF9C-911B-4d67-9EB0-4D530FB456AB"
NAME = NS Log Archive Schedule
DESCRIPTION = This item archive NS logs to the NS Log event class table
At 5:00 AM every day, starting Wednesday, 1 January 2003
GUID="6B2FBF7B-BB55-44ae-A9B5-495DAD295E5D"
NAME = NS Process Monitoring Schedule
DESCRIPTION = This item monitors the NS processes and log the current handle count and memory usage to the database.
Every 4 hour(s) from 4:30 AM for 24 hour(s) every day, starting Wednesday, 1 January 2003
<!-- Scheduled agent push -->
GUID="124D0571-4725-466c-8F43-998160D3CFF2"
NAME = Scheduled agent push to discovered machines item.
DESCRIPTION = This item pushes the agent to newly discovered machines on a schedule.
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<!-- Scheduled Inventory Summary Update -->
GUID="6D6D3A9B-A753-4299-90E9-4C8CA7E9004C"
NAME = Resource Inventory Summary Update
DESCRIPTION = This schedule will update the AeX AC Resource Inventory Summary class and record it against the computer that is this Notification Server
At 1:20 AM every day, starting Wednesday, 1 January 2003
<!-- Scheduled NSMessage queue purge -->
GUID="C5F686D0-4405-4ad2-8C33-3B0A9C27742D"
NAME = Scheduled purge of the NS Message queue.
DESCRIPTION = This item ensures that the NS Message Queue is regularly purged
Every 12 hours from 6:00:00 AM for 24 hours every 1 days, starting Wednesday, 1 January 2003
<!-- Disabled schedule available for a user to run manually to purge inventory dupes -->
GUID="1CF19C43-B2A2-42c1-871A-DC5A83796BA8"
NAME = Purge Duplicate Inventory Rows
DESCRIPTION = This item is available to be activated manually, through a schedule, to run through the inventory tables and purge duplicates that may have occurred as a result of upgrade.
At 12:00:00 AM on Monday, 5 May 1980
<!-- A scheduled "sanity" check to make sure there are no blank resource names in the database -->
GUID="864F2421-E16F-4ced-B14A-06522A7AF4C3"
NAME = Refresh Computer Resource Names
DESCRIPTION = Attempts to ensure that a computer resource's name is the same across all locations in the database.
At 12:00:00 AM on Monday, 5 May 1980
<!-- Schedule for refreshing the item hashs -->
<!-- Disabled for now as the item replication should handle fixing it up
GUID="12233BAE-FBD3-4703-A67D-CC0CD25BAB7A"
NAME = Scheduled refresh of item hashs for replicated items.
DESCRIPTION = This ensures that the item hashs are correct
At 3:00 AM every day, starting Wednesday, 1 January 2003
<!-- Schedule for site update -->
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NAME = Site update schedule
DESCRIPTION = This item updates the site data and refreshes the address to subnet cache
Every 30 minute(s) from 9:00 AM for 24 hour(s) every day, starting Wednesday, 1 January 2003
GUID="{8857CBE7-DFC0-45e8-A25D-C600F5838241}"
NAME = Scalability check schedule
DESCRIPTION = This policy checks to ensure NS settings are appropriate for the system environment
At 1:00 AM every Sun of every week, starting Wednesday, 1 January 2003
GUID="7FB7EA2E-3EEB-4f0e-A52A-15EE0775EACB"
NAME = Internal data consistency check
DESCRIPTION = Delete invalid item references and invalid data from the forwarding history summary table.
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<SHARED SCHEDULES>
GUID="{77B1616A-9CE7-415E-8BA5-7B789ECBE45F}
NAME = Business Hours
DESCRIPTION = Notification Server Business Hours Schedule
Every 1 hour(s) from 8:10 AM for 9 hour(s) every Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri of every week, starting Wednesday, 1 January 2003
GUID="{8E6C708E-18BC-4EF9-ACEA-2DE826C4F3B9}"
NAME = Daily
DESCRIPTION = Notification Server Daily Schedule
At 2:00 AM every day, starting Wednesday, 1 January 2003
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NAME = Monthly
DESCRIPTION = Notification Server Monthly Schedule
At 2:00 AM on day 1 of every month, starting Wednesday, 1 January 2003