Initial Runs

When OutBoard for Housekeeping is freshly installed, it is common for the systems to contain large volumes of data that are suitable to be removed (cleaned). We highly recommend creating housekeeping settings that will split the data into smaller parts of data, so that not everything will be cleansed at once as this may cause the problems on database level.

Landscape Recommendations

The landscape is the primary structure, which determines the way an inheritance will be implemented.
There is a root node on the topmost level of the landscape – it is the parent of all groups and systems. The rest of the tree can be built (see the Landscape Editor chapter) by taking and account the next simple rules:

1. If company subsidiaries are located in different time zones, the systems dedicated to these subsidiaries should be grouped according to their time zones, this helps to schedule the tasks in local time and keep the load on the system low.
2. For Basis & BW activities, a Central package is delivered. For ERP activities, Central and ERP packages are delivered. For CRM activities, Central and CRM packages are delivered. Meaning, the user could schedule Basis and BW tasks for ERP or CRM systems, but not ERP (or CRM) tasks for BW systems.
3. Groups could consist of the same system types, but not mixed ("pure" groups for BW, ERP, or CRM).
4. Groups may consist of the systems with the same or similar purpose (Dev, Quality, or Production, the rate of data growth, etc.). Thus, it is possible to create and schedule the same settings for the whole group.