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SFX Cron Jobs
| Job | Time (see note below) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Google Scholar file | 03:30 a.m. on Monday morning | This file was also used (2009-?) by OCLC for eSerials service. OCLC ignored ebooks in file. |
| Table Maintenance & Repair | 02:30 a.m. every month on the second day | Setup by ExLibris |
| Clean Apache log files | 02:17 a.m. on Sunday morning | Cleans log files. |
| Elsevier Autoload load | 12:01 a.m. the 1st day of the month | Began 2015. |
| Statistic Queries | 6-7:20 a.m. the 14th of the month | As of 2016, runs Queries 2,3,4,5,6,8,10,11,12 and sends reports to cknapp email. Calendar and FY stats are run manually and include Queries 14 & 19. |
| EDS file transfer | 4:02 a.m. on Tuesdays | Sends SFX file to EBSCO to update SFX content information for EDS SFX CustomLinks. Began 12/16. SFX file to update ejournal placards is separate file sent manually. |
Note: times are Central time as SFX server is in Chicago. Also note there are index build jobs associated with the ebooks functionality which are not shown here. Best to check with support before adding another job which might conflict with “hidden” ones or with the backup.
To setup cron jobs
- For more information see the SFX users guides.
- A list of cron jobs can be found Unix-side: Login>da>crontab -l
- Edit the crontab using “crontab -e” instead.
- Statistics reports crons can be setup via each of the Statistics Queries (sends to email) but old crons need to be removed UNIX side.
- Google Scholar job was setup by registration procedure in the KB, but edited in crontab to add ebook export.
- AZ, RSI and other index jobs also setup via server_admin_util. Can be edited in crontab.
- Example cron: 00 05 03 * * /exlibris/sfx_ver/sfx4_1/umass3/admin/kbtools/marc_enhancement.pl – profile=marcit4export (Note: A cron for MARCIt was not set up due to multiple staff using files that interfered with the running of the cron, and that the cron was only able to replace a small portion of the MARCIt load process. 2016)
