Semiannual Maintenance Schedule

Recommended semiannual maintenance includes tasks such as changing your system login names and passwords, validating and rebuilding indexes, and updating your system date and time for Daylight Savings Time.

Semiannual Tasks

Task

Purpose

See

Change your Horizon system administration and user passwords, and database passwords.

Note: If you want to have a user change his or her own password, you can set up a user password to expire automatically.

Keeps hackers and other unauthorized users from breaking into your system

Updating Security.

Refer also to the documentation for your database.

At Daylight Savings Time, change the date and time on your system.

Helps the system calculate fines and due dates correctly.

Refer to the documentation for your specific operating system.

 


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