At this point you should have finished the first part of the scheduled task DMS installation, and if necessary, set compliance to false.

• Click here for the first part of the Scheduled Task DMS Agent installation.
• Click here for troubleshooting steps.

Scheduled Task DMS Agent Installation (2/2)

• Find the Windows Task Scheduler utility.
• Right click and select Run as administrator.
• Expand the Task Scheduler Library on the left
• Find and right click on the ARI DMS Agent task in the list
• Select Properties.
  
  • Click Change User of Group…
    
  • Type users in the box.
  • Click the Check Names button.
  • You should see users change to the name of your computer followed by “\Users” looking something likeLocalMachineName\Users. Confirm this is the case and click OK.
  • You should now see BUILTIN\Users to the left of the Change User of Group… button.
    • This will show as the name of your pc the next time you view this page, so don’t worry if you come back.
• Next click the Triggers tab.
  
  • Click New.
    
  • Select Daily. Confirm the the trigger is set to Recur every: 1 days..
  • Check the repeat task every box.
    • Confirm repeat is set to 1 hour for a duration of 1 day.
  • click OK.
• Open the Settings tab
  
  • Check the box that says If the task fails, restart every:
    • Set If the task fails, restart every: values to 1 minute and 3 times
  • Uncheck the box that says Stop the task if it runs longer than: (3 days)
  • Confirm the the dropdown list at the bottom says Do not start a new instance.
  • Click OK to save all changes.
• Click on the ARI DMS Agent scheduled task
  
  • Click the Run button on the right or in the right-click dropdown.
    • If the windows firewall gives you a pop-up, please allow node.js to run on private networks and domain networks.
  • Click the refresh button on the right.
  • Make sure the status column for the scheduled task now says: running.
  • You may close scheduled tasks.

Confirm the DMS is running

• Open web browser and to the partsmart.net tab.
• Refresh the page. If you don’t see the refresh button ctrl+r or f5 will also refresh the page.
• Click the Locations tab in the Advanced Options menu.
• expand your Location.
• Go down to the DMS Integration section.
• If the DMS was running when the page loaded you will see the DMS Version. If not you will see DMS Agent not running.

Confirm product data

• If we go to any part in your DMS and click Query DMS you should see the selected DMS information update after a short delay. Values from the DMS show in blue, instead of the usual orange.
• You may also go to diagrams in your dms. Selecting Query DMS here will update the part entries as they are expanded.
• If the DMS is not running, or you do not see part data coming through, please click here for troubleshooting steps.

Edit Catalog Codes

• If your DMS requires a catalog code that does not match what is in PartSmart, you can override the default value for a catalog in the Catalog Code Override section.
• Click Save Changes button.

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