How to use the “24-Hour pButtons” importable task

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Downloading “24-Hour pButtons” in Instrument Manager (IM) can help you monitor the performance of your IM system. You can check baseline performance information and troubleshoot performance issues if they arise. Read on to learn how to download, install, and remove the “24-hour pButtons” task.

To Install:

  1. Download the 24hourpbuttons.xml file onto each Instrument Manager system that you want to monitor. You can download from:
    • My DI Community by searching for “pbuttons” (For Data Innovations’ (DI) North American customers)Customer Web Portal (CWP) by changing the “Resource” to “All” and searching for “pbuttons” (For all DI customers not in North America)
    NOTE We suggest placing this file in the Instrument Manager or InterSystems folder, not on the User Desktop.
  2. Log into the Caché terminal as a user in the “IM Security Administrators” group.
  3. Run the following command from the %SYS namespace:
    %SYS>do setlogdir^pButtons(“24-Hour_pButtons”)

4. Close the terminal and log into the Caché Management Portal.


5. Log in with a Caché Admin User ID from step 2.


6. Select System Operation, Task Manager, Import Tasks, then select Go.

7. Select Browse.

8. Locate the 24hourpbuttons.xml that you saved in the first step.

9. Select OK.

10. Select Perform Action Now, you will see a line like the one shown below.
NOTE The ID may vary from system to system. (Always >1000 though)

perform action now

11.The html files will be created in the 24-Hour_pButtons folder in the Caché MGR directory.
C:\Intersystems\Cache\mgr\24-Hour_pButtons
NOTE The task will run by default at midnight and every 24 hours after that. For example, if you import the file on Friday, the task will run on Saturday at midnight. It will run for 24-hours, and the results file will be created on Sunday morning.

To Remove:

  1. Log-in to terminal as an admin and run the following command from the %SYS namespace:
    %SYS>do clrlogdir^pButtons()

    command2
  2. Select Yes when prompted.
  3. Close the terminal window.
  4. Log into the Caché Management Portal.
    cache management portal2
  5. Log in with a Caché admin user.
    cache admin2
  6. Select System Operation, Task Manager, Task Schedule, then select Go.
    system operation2
  7. Locate the imported task and click on the name.
    import task2
  8. On the Task detail pane, select Delete.

    task delete
  9. Select OK when prompted.

For more information about the ^pButtons utility within Caché, please visit the InterSystems Documentation page on this topic.

10. Select Perform Action Now, you will see a line like the one shown below.
NOTE The ID may vary from system to system. (Always >1000 though)


11. The html files will be created in the 24-Hour_pButtons folder in the Caché MGR directory:
C:\Intersystems\Cache\mgr\24-Hour_pButtons

NOTE: The task will run by default at midnight and every 24 hours after that. For example, if you import the file on Friday, the task will run on Saturday at midnight. It will run for 24-hours, and the results file will be created on Sunday morning.

To Remove:

  1. Log-in to terminal as an admin and run the following command from the %SYS namespace:
    %SYS>do clrlogdir^pButtons()


2. Select Yes when prompted.

3. Close the terminal window.

4. Log into the Caché Management Portal.


5. Log in with a Caché admin user.


6. Select System Operation, Task Manager, Task Schedule, then select Go.


7. Locate the imported task and click on the name.


8. On the Task detail pane, select Delete.


9. Select OK when prompted.

For more information about the ^pButtons utility within Caché, please visit the InterSystems Documentation page on this topic.

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