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How to Tell Whether Anything Is Actually Hosting Your Syncs
A healthy idle integration host writes no run rows, so run history cannot tell you whether anything is running. What the liveness beacon reports, including from workstations that host nothing.
Reading the EDGEBIC Scheduling Session Log
The scheduling session log is the third diagnostic surface: a decision-by-decision trace of one scheduling run. What it records, how to read it, and when to switch it off.
What to Decide Before Several Workstations Share One EDGEBIC Database
The software handles the mechanics of several planners on one database. These are the eight decisions it cannot make for you, and what each one costs if you skip it.
Why Your ERP Sync Belongs on a Server, Not a Workstation
By default any open EDGEBIC workstation can dispatch scheduled integrations. On a shared database that is the wrong place for them. What the always-on sync host does and how to hand hosting over to it.
Choosing a Safe Change Window in EDGEBIC
Which EDGEBIC admin changes need everyone signed out, which take effect at the next sign-in, and which land on the next scheduler run. A timing table for planning your changes.
Deciding Who May Change the Schedule in EDGEBIC
Running the scheduler, dragging the Gantt, logging actuals, and editing actual dates are separate rights in EDGEBIC. Here is how to split them across your team.
Documenting Your Plant's EDGEBIC Conventions
The one-page conventions document every EDGEBIC site needs: naming rules, data ownership, mask sources, role definitions, and the scheduling policy decisions with their reasons.
Handing EDGEBIC Over to a New IT Owner
The handover pack for a new EDGEBIC owner: which database, who holds administrator access, where the backups are, which roles exist, and what to do when it will not start.
Onboarding a New Planner Account in EDGEBIC
How to onboard a new planner in EDGEBIC safely: assign a role rather than build one, force a first-login password change, and widen access only when they hit a real wall.
Protecting Administrator Access in EDGEBIC
Why every EDGEBIC site needs two administrators, what the founding account can and cannot do, and how to keep admin access working when the person holding it leaves.
Running a Restore Drill for Your EDGEBIC Database
A backup you have never restored is a hypothesis. Here is a one-hour EDGEBIC restore drill: restore into a separate database, verify the plan, and record how long it took.
Setting Up a Training Copy of EDGEBIC
How to run a training or test copy of EDGEBIC beside production: a second database name on the DataSource tab, what a fresh database starts with, and how to reset it between classes.