"When we were launching Ireland’s first regional radio station, I had no hesitation in buying Myriad; Scoop and Powerlog."

Kieran McGeary,
Launch director, Beat 102-103, Waterford, Ireland.

P Squared BootStuff v1.0 Support

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Boot-It User Manual - (PDF 2.6Mb) - Updated 23/01/2007

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BootStuff is a small application developed by P Squared to manage the launching of P Squared products in a more intelligent way. It does this by allowing you to specify which products should start when the computer is rebooted and also to attach certain conditions to the start-up procedure.

Although there are many potential applications, the two principle scenarios where BootStuff is really useful are:

Waiting For A Server To Boot Up – In this scenario, you can use BootStuff to only start the P Squared application once the server that the application is relying on has finished booting up. For example; in a typical Myriad installation, the Myriad workstations will be configured to use the audio and database stored on a central server or file location. In the event of a full network wide reboot (say after a power cut), the playout workstations will boot up much quicker than the server, and the result will be an error message on screen in Myriad saying that the network locations are not available. By using BootStuff you can set Myriad to start only after the specified server has completed booting up avoiding these problems.
Using A Backup Server If The Primary Fails To Restart – Some installations include a primary and a backup server to provide an alternative location for P Squared applications to get their data from should the primary server fail. In this type of scenario, BootStuff can be used to test both a primary and a backup source and should the primary source not be available after a configurable time period, BootStuff will take alternative action such as load an alternative copy of Myriad using the backup server profile.

Important! This product is available as a free download, however Support is only available if you have a current Support Contract for another P Squared Product (i.e. Myriad, Powerlog, Scoop etc.). You are free to use this software in whatever way you see fit, however we accept no responsibility for anything silly you do with it.

Right click on the links below and select Save when prompted. Once you have downloaded, uninstall the current version of the product and then run the downloaded installer.

Full Release Versions

	Version	Size	Release Date	Download	Information
	BootStuff v1.0.4	5.27Mb	19th November 2007	Here	Update Info

Beta Release Versions

	Version	Size	Release Date	Download	Information
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For full details on what we mean by Beta Release, please click here.

N.B. Always backup important data before updating products.

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