Managing maintenance operations

In the My Account > Maintenance tab you can manage the settings for a variety of maintenance operations. To manage a setting, select it from the following drop-down menu:

Maintenance: The Maintenance option checks if automatic maintenance is running correctly. If you click the Disable automatic maintenance link, OpenX displays the My Account > Global Setting >Maintenance option, where you can change existing settings.

Banner: OpenX uses a database banner cache speed up the delivery of banners. You must update this cache when you upgrade OpenX, or when you move OpenX from one server to another. If you click the Check banner cache link, OpenX checks your banner cache and notifies you of any errors.

Priority: OpenX calculates campaign priorities automatically. If you want to perform a manual calculation for troubleshooting purposes, click the Recalculate priority link.

Storage: The images used by local banners are usually stored inside the database, but you can store them in a directory to reduce the load on the database and increase speed. The option to move to a directory is available if you select Local directory as a storage option in the Global settings > Delivery settings tab. To change the storage option, enter the correct information in the Public URL and the Local directory fields.

Delivery limitations: Under some unusual circumstances, banner delivery rules can vary from the rules for banners and channels (the Access Control List rules). Click the Check ACLs link to check the rules are up-to-date if delivery priorities are not what you expect them to be.

Append codes: Under some unusual circumstances, banner delivery code can be unaware of tracker append code.  Click the Check append codes to validate the append codes in the database.

Encoding: OpenX 2.6 stores all data in the database in UTF-8 format. Where possible, your data is automatically converted to this encoding when you upgrade from earlier releases of OpenX. If you find corrupt charaters after an upgrade and you know the encoding that was used, you can use this tool to convert the data from that format to UTF-8.