Editor: The Helix Maintenance Manager (HMM) was designed by Ryan Wilcox and Jared Barden based upon Lenny Eiger's Database Chequer, picking up where Database Chequer left off.
Whether you work on one Helix collection or many, the Helix Maintenance Manager will put your mind at rest.
HMM lets you Create a separate QA script for each collection managed by Helix Maintenance Manager, and each can have its own activity log, telling you when your tests were run, what was found, what actions were taken and whether or not the result was successful.
HMM comes with the ability to run both built-in and externally-supplied Scripts. One particularly useful script connects to your email and sends you a message with the results of utility run. Got a script that will call your pager? HMM can use it to give you the good news (or bad news) in plenty of time to avoid a catastrophe!
HMM is the OS X solution for coordinating and managing all your Helix diagnostic and backup needs.
Is HMM hard to learn? What can it do for me?
HMM is, on a very simple level, a program that automates the Process of running the Helix Utility (HU) and Update Collection (UC) diagnostic and repair tools. But it is really much, much more than that.
A software maintenance management program, it was designed according to three simple concepts:
- Always be backed up.
- Always be sure your backups are sound from both structural and a data integrity perspectives.
- Perform the activities required to achieve these objectives on a schedule.
- Some people will find HMM incredibly useful without taking advantage of its scheduling capabilities. It still does it's job admirably. But without scheduling, your idea of backup--whatever it may be--is just a scheme. With HMM, it's a Plan.
