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Max Media Manager v0.2 API Maintenance Statistics: AdServer

Maintenance

Describes how the Maintenance Engine works

The complete Maintenance Engine process consists of the following steps:

  1. The Maintenance Statistics Engine process for the AdServer module.
  2. A number of undocumented once-per-day processes that are left over from PAN (e.g. reports, campaign optimisation).
  3. The undocumented PAN Maintenance Priority process.

About Operation Intervals

An important part of understanding the Maintenance Engine process is grasping the concept of an operation interval.

While Max Media Manager presents statistics in an hour-by-hour format in the web based user interface, and by default updates these statistics and the advertisement priorities each and every hour, some users do not require these statistics and the advertisement priorities to be updated every hour. Alternatively, some users need the advertisement priorities to be updated more often than once an hour.

The operation interval of Max is the measure of how often the Maintenance process is (or, rather, is supposed to be) run. For most users, the operation interval will be 60 minutes. However, some users may choose to run the Maintenance process more, or less, often. However, the operation interval must be a factor (i.e, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, or 30) or a multiple (i.e. 60, 120, 180, ... 10080) of 60 minutes. The maximum operation interval is 10080 minutes, equivalent to running the Maintenance Engine process once a week.

If the operation interval is 60 minutes, then each time the Maintenance Engine process is run, the hourly statistics in the Max user interface will be updated, as will the advertisement priorities.

Similarly, if the operation interval is more than 60 minutes, then each time the Maintenance Engine process is run, the hourly statistics in the Max user interface will be updated, as will the advertisement priorities. Obviously, though, because the Maintenance Engine process is not being run each hour, then the hourly statistics and advertisement priorities are not updated each hour.

If the operation interval is less than 60 minutes, then each time the Maintenance Engine process is run, the advertisement priorities will be updated. However, the hourly statistics in the Max user interface will not be updated each time - they will only be updated at the end of the hour.

Note: In order for the above to work, the operation interval value must be correctly set in the Maintenance configuration file, and your cronjob or schtask must be set up correctly to run the Maintenance Engine process at the correct operation interval.

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