Question

What regular maintenance steps can I perform to optimize the performance of Summation Pro work orders?

 

Answer

Step 1: Fail any orphaned or hung jobs, clear out old logs and temporary files

Step 1A: FTK Central users that perform agent collections only (Good to do at the same time as step 1 while services are stopped): Site Server Maintenance

Step 2: Full Database Validation using DBConfig

Step 3: Rebuild SQL Indexes

 

Overview

Performing these steps, in this order, will alleviate a majority issues experienced in regard to work order related performance issues. These can be things such as productions not completing, processing taking much longer than usual or not completing, issues with opening or using items such as Labels and Document groups.

These steps can be performed on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis as a proactive measure or used only in times of need as an initial troubleshooting task.