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SFX TotalCare:
KB Updates and Basic Troubleshooting
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Copyright Statement
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Agenda
• KnowledgeBase (KB) Updates
• Basic Troubleshooting
• For Your Information
SFX Exports & Collection Analysis Options
System Admin Information
• Summary & Additional Resources
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How To…Review KB Update release notes
Troubleshoot errorsLog a support case
Objectives
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Agenda
• KnowledgeBase (KB) Updates
• Basic Troubleshooting
• For Your Information
SFX Exports & Collection Analysis Options
System Admin Information
• Summary & Additional Resources
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KB Updates
• Consists of software and database updates
• Updates weekly – on Tuesdays
• ExLibris runs on server for you
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KB Update Release Notes
• Review weekly release notes
Resources you want to activate
Resources that were deleted
• Access from ExLibris Documentation Center
http://www.customercenter.exlibrisgroup.com/
Path: SFX > Technical Documentation > Release
Notes > Version 4
• Weekly updates announced on SFX-L
http://el-una.org/mailing-lists/sfx-mailing-lists/
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Agenda
• KnowledgeBase (KB) Updates
• Basic Troubleshooting
• For Your Information
SFX Exports & Collection Analysis Options
System Admin Information
• Summary & Additional Resources
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OpenURL
Services
Target
Thresholds
SFX Menu
Target URL
Source
SFX
Context Object
Link Resolution Process
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What is OpenURL?
• OpenURL
A standard type of URL that contains resource
metadata designed to support linking from
information resources (e.g. bibliographic record) to
library services (e.g. full-text information)
• NISO Standard
• Source and Target links are OpenURLs
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How to see the OpenURL
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Example OpenURL
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What you see: No Link
Don’t we get this from EBSCO, too?
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Why you don’t see it & what to do
• Article not available on vendor’s site
Check vendor site
• Threshold filtering it out
Check publication details in A-Z list and/or search for
object in SFX Admin Lite; update thresholds as
needed
• Target / service / object not active
Search for object in Admin Lite. If target or service
levels not active, contact Support
• Submit support case as needed
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What you see: Link is broken
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Why it’s broken & what to do
• Vendor site down or article not available on
vendor’s site
Check vendor site
• Linking parameters configured incorrectly
Contact Support to confirm that your linking
parameters are correct
• OpenURL incorrect or incomplete
Review data in OpenURL and use that data to search
in vendor site to see if it’s correct/incorrect
Log support case as needed
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Report Broken Link
• Displays in SFX menu for full text, abstract,
and table of contents services - if Go button
or target link is clicked
• Reports broken target links to Ex Libris and to
another e‐mail address you prefer
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Troubleshooting: Support Portal
• Access Support Portal from Customer Center: http://www.customercenter.exlibrisgroup.com
Or directly via: http://support.exlibrisgroup.com
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Troubleshooting: Support Articles
• In Support Portal, click Articles tab to
search for articles on a particular topic or
issue
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Troubleshooting: Reporting Issues
• Steps to reproduce
• Expected behavior vs. what’s happening
• Article Name (if applicable)
• Journal/Book Name (if applicable)
• ISSN/ISBN (if applicable)
• Date of the object’s publication
• Vendor/Provider Names of Source and Target
• Your coverage of the publication (check A-Z List)
• OpenURLs of the Source and Target (if applicable)
• URL of the SFX Menu
• Screenshots of the SFX Menu & Error Message
PC - PrtSc + paste into Paint; Mac Command Shift 3
• Include 1 issue per support case
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Troubleshooting: Reporting Issues
Steps to reproduce • Log in to URL here
• Search for search term
• Go to the identified record result and click ‘View Online’
• Select the ProQuest result in the SFX Menu
Expected behavior vs what’s happening
I expect to be brought to the full text in ProQuest, but it’s not available
Article Name London’s Book Fair 2011: Books that Made a Splash
Journal Name Publisher’s Weekly
ISBN/ISSN 0000-0019
Date of the object’s publication 5/24/2011
Vendor/Provider Name ProQuest
Your coverage of the publication 1999-current
OpenURLs http://sfxhosted.exlibrisgroup.com/sfx?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8...
URL of SFX Menu http://sfxhosted.exlibrisgroup.com/sfx?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8...
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Requests for New Targets
• Support Portal - KB Items: Customer
requests for new targets and target services
Click on “Promote” to vote “me too” for the target.
• If not in KB Items list, submit support case
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Monitor System Status
• Check SFX system status using Ex Libris’ Cloud
Systems Status page
• Provides latest information on the availability of
hosted Ex Libris instances
• Access Cloud Systems Status via Customer Center http://www.customercenter.exlibrisgroup.com/
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Agenda
• KnowledgeBase (KB) Updates
• Basic Troubleshooting
• For Your Information
SFX Exports & Collection Analysis Options
System Admin Information
• Summary & Additional Resources
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SFX Exports
• Export information from SFX database
e.g., all active targets; list of objects & thresholds
• Use for:
Gaining knowledge about electronic journal collection
Exporting data to Primo, Primo Central, Google
Scholar
• Formats: Tab-delimited .txt file,
GoogleScholar, XML, and more
• Log support case to request an export
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Collection Analysis
• Collection Tool allows comparison of full
text titles available in different packages or
sets of packages
Determine the level of overlap in the packages to
which you subscribe, or check whether your
holdings are incomplete
Fine‐tune your subscriptions to meet your institution’s
needs
• Log support case, indicating packages you
want to compare
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Collection Tool Example Report
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System Admin: Backup & Recovery
Ex Libris performs backups and recovery for
TotalCare customers
•Backup includes
SFX files
MySQL hot-copy dump of database files
•Daily; no downtime required
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System Admin: Security
• Support for SSL
• Restricting Access to SFX Admin Lite
• Restricting Access to SFX Menus
• Session Timeout in SFX Admin Lite
• XSS Cross-Site Scripting Security Breach
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Agenda
• KnowledgeBase (KB) Updates
• Basic Troubleshooting
• For Your Information
SFX Exports & Collection Analysis Options
System Admin Information
• Summary & Additional Resources
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How To…Review KB Update release notes
Troubleshoot errorsLog a support case
Summary
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Additional Resources
Accessible from Documentation Center:
(http://www.customercenter.exlibrisgroup.com/)
Path: SFX > Technical Documentation
General User’s Guide
Advanced User’s Guide
SFX Source Configuration Guide
SFX Target Configuration Guide
SFX System Administration Guide
Path: Cross Product > Support
Support Portal Documentation