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Upon the first launch of the Just In Engine application, a new preference pane named Tools On Air will be installed on the that macOS machine.

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Stay Alive (Tools On Air

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Preferences pane)

The Stay Alive feature can be used to select certain applications that should be automatically started and additionally should be "kept aliveKept Alive" at all times. Only the applications installed on the specific system are available for selection, any other applications in the list will be disabled in the Stay Alive preference pane.

  • Power Outage: once the power returns and the system restarts, the particular selected application(s) automatically starts.

  • Unexpected Application Termination: should an application crash at any time, it will automatically be restarted by the system.

  • Maintenance Purposes: we recommend to restart restarting the Just In Engine application once per week.

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Warning

Make sure Ensure that the applications you are going to enable in Stay Alive are quit before you activate select them.

Start an Application using Stay Alive

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When a volume or folder is specified in the Required Path section, the respective application will only be started when the specified volume/folder is mounted/presentavailable. This may be useful if you have a NAS, SAN, or other types of file systems that must be mounted during system startup that may take some additional time before they are available.

In this case, it is important not to start any ToolsOnAir applications that may rely on data from these file systems until the volume is available. By specifying such volumes in Stay Alive you can make sure ensure that any ToolsOnAir application gets not doesn’t get started , until the relevant volume/file system is available.

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