Nightly task schedules timetable

This table summarizes the time of execution of those tasks that the different Nexthink components perform during the night, when the activity in your IT infrastructure is supposed to be low.

Little activity in the IT infrastructure is desirable because the nightly tasks require appreciable processing power from the Nexthink appliances. In particular, the execution of the tasks Data collection and Engine cleanup and maintenance may significantly reduce the responsiveness of your Engines to concurrent requests (investigations, remote actions, etc).

Some of them are configurable so you can adapt their activation to the time that suits you best.

Local time	Task	Affects	Indicative duration	Defined in
22:00	Rule-base assignment backup	Portal	< 3 minutes	/etc/cron.d/nxassignment-crontab
22:15	Portal backup	Portal	< 3 minutes	/etc/cron.d/portal-crontab
22:30	Nginx config backup	Portal	< 3 minutes	/etc/cron.d/nxnginx-crontab
01:00	License check	Engine	< 5 minutes	non-configurable
01:00	Data collection	Portal and Engine	minutes to hours	Parameterglobalconfig.portal.collector.time-to-collect in file /var/nexthink/portal/conf/portal.conf
01:10	Web Console backup	Web Console	< 3 minutes	/etc/cron.d/nxconsole-crontab
03:45	Engine cleanup and maintenance	Engine	15 - 30 minutes	non-configurable
04:15	Engine backup	Engine	< 5 minutes	/etc/cron.d/nxengine-crontab

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RELATED TASKS

• Web Console backup and restore

• Portal backup and restore

• Engine backup and restore