Preexisting cron tasks

There are preexisting cron tasks set up to run scheduled jobs on the system server. Cron tasks are behind-the-scene jobs that run automatically and on a fixed schedule.

The following table describes the preexisting cron tasks. All these cron tasks are set to full access level, except for ESCALATIONS and LSNRCRON (READONLY).

Table 1. Preexisting cron tasks
Cron task	Description
ReorderCronTask	The reorder cron task determines the rules or parameters for scheduled reordering, direct issue, and inventory items.
PMWoGenCronTask	The preventive maintenance work order generation cron task runs and generates scheduled work orders for planned maintenance.
KPICronTask	This cron task generates key performance indicators.
LDAPSYNC	The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) synchronization cron task synchronizes information that is stored in external directory servers for user authentication. The LDAPSYNC cron task supports incremental synchronization.
ESCALATION	The escalation cron task processes escalations to ensure that critical tasks are completed on time.
LSNRCRON	The e-mail listener cron task runs continuously on the application server, and processes inbound e-mail messages through a staging table.
JMSQSEQCONSUMER	This cron task is used by the integration framework to poll the queue.
IFACETABLECONSUMER	This cron task is used by the integration framework to poll the interface tables.
SwSuiteCronTask	This cron task determines whether the software titles in the Deployed Asset application are present.
ReconciliationCronTask	This cron task runs reconciliation tasks that consist of link and comparison rules. These rules are used to determine how assets are performing relative to the discovered data in the Deployed Asset application. Outputs from this task include a RECONLINK table. This table links assets to their counterpart assets and a reconciliation results table that lists the differences between compared assets and deployed assets.
MeasurePointWoGenCronTask	This cron task generates work orders when meter readings or measurements reach a condition that is defined in the Condition Monitoring application.
FLATFILECONS	This cron task processes inbound flat files.
XMFILECON	This cron task processes inbound XML files.
VMMSYNC	This cron task invokes IBM®WebSphere® Virtual Member Manager, and invokes WebSphere Virtual Member Manager application programming interfaces (APIs) to populate database tables. The database tables are populated with user group and group membership records. The VMMSYNC cron task supports full synchronization of users and security groups by default, but it can be configured to support the incremental synchronization of users and groups. Before you can use incremental synchronization, you must set the supportChangeLog parameter to native in WebSphere Application Server. If you delete users or security groups in the directory server, the VMMSYNC cron task does not delete the users or groups from the system tables. Use the Security Groups application to delete security groups or the Users application to delete users, and set up an archiving process. Alternatively, you can create a cron task to delete users or security groups.
BBCron	This cron task periodically updates the count for the number of bulletin board messages.