Preventative Maintenance Software/Schedule

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Greetings!
My company is beginning to think as a larger entity than they used to,
which is good since we've been growing like mad. Previously we had a
"fix if broken" policy of maintenance but we're looking to step away
from that to something more preventative. I was wondering if any of
you folks could recommend a good program to help keep track of what
the servers are doing, when things were fixed and when they are likely
to need it again, etc...
Short of that, I would be interested in hearing anyone's regular
maintenance schedule for their servers.
Thanks all!
Cheers!
 
Re: Preventative Maintenance Software/Schedule

Hello,

You would keep an eye on the second Tuesday of every month, this is the
Microsoft patch day.

It's not so much about tools, but feeding them with informations.

How many servers do you have ?
You may use Exchange public folders (calendars...) or even sharepoint if you
already got one

Of course, Microsoft SCOM 2007 would be just great on monitoring your
servers :)

--
Cordialement,
Mathieu CHATEAU
http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com


"Matt S" <vagen71@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1190306146.189732.245410@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...
> Greetings!
> My company is beginning to think as a larger entity than they used to,
> which is good since we've been growing like mad. Previously we had a
> "fix if broken" policy of maintenance but we're looking to step away
> from that to something more preventative. I was wondering if any of
> you folks could recommend a good program to help keep track of what
> the servers are doing, when things were fixed and when they are likely
> to need it again, etc...
> Short of that, I would be interested in hearing anyone's regular
> maintenance schedule for their servers.
> Thanks all!
> Cheers!
>
 
Re: Preventative Maintenance Software/Schedule

Howdy!

I already know about Patch-Day form Microsoft. I'm more looking for a
schedule for optimization/preventative maintenance. System Defrags,
Hard Disk Error-Checking, Optimization of Data Bases (Sql and others),
hard drive clearing, etc...
In addition to all of that, how often we should physically clear out
areas, dust, what-not, check power cables for over-heating, breakers,
general maintenance stuff. Right now we have a tendency to plug it in
and never check it again. I want to get us away from that.

That's more of what I'm looking for, but thanks for the idea!


On Sep 20, 12:41 pm, "Mathieu CHATEAU" <gollum...@free.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> You would keep an eye on the second Tuesday of every month, this is the
> Microsoft patch day.
>
> It's not so much about tools, but feeding them with informations.
>
> How many servers do you have ?
> You may use Exchange public folders (calendars...) or even sharepoint if you
> already got one
>
> Of course, Microsoft SCOM 2007 would be just great on monitoring your
> servers :)
>
> --
> Cordialement,
> Mathieu CHATEAUhttp://lordoftheping.blogspot.com
>
> "Matt S" <vage...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1190306146.189732.245410@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
> > Greetings!
> > My company is beginning to think as a larger entity than they used to,
> > which is good since we've been growing like mad. Previously we had a
> > "fix if broken" policy of maintenance but we're looking to step away
> > from that to something more preventative. I was wondering if any of
> > you folks could recommend a good program to help keep track of what
> > the servers are doing, when things were fixed and when they are likely
> > to need it again, etc...
> > Short of that, I would be interested in hearing anyone's regular
> > maintenance schedule for their servers.
> > Thanks all!
> > Cheers!- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
 
Re: Preventative Maintenance Software/Schedule

You should look at MS SCOM 2007, that will analyze eventlog, correlate
events, monitor sql & co..

If a rule of thumbs would exist, everybody would use it ;)

--
Cordialement,
Mathieu CHATEAU
http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com


"Matt S" <vagen71@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1190638906.249881.7220@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> Howdy!
>
> I already know about Patch-Day form Microsoft. I'm more looking for a
> schedule for optimization/preventative maintenance. System Defrags,
> Hard Disk Error-Checking, Optimization of Data Bases (Sql and others),
> hard drive clearing, etc...
> In addition to all of that, how often we should physically clear out
> areas, dust, what-not, check power cables for over-heating, breakers,
> general maintenance stuff. Right now we have a tendency to plug it in
> and never check it again. I want to get us away from that.
>
> That's more of what I'm looking for, but thanks for the idea!
>
>
> On Sep 20, 12:41 pm, "Mathieu CHATEAU" <gollum...@free.fr> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> You would keep an eye on the second Tuesday of every month, this is the
>> Microsoft patch day.
>>
>> It's not so much about tools, but feeding them with informations.
>>
>> How many servers do you have ?
>> You may use Exchange public folders (calendars...) or even sharepoint if
>> you
>> already got one
>>
>> Of course, Microsoft SCOM 2007 would be just great on monitoring your
>> servers :)
>>
>> --
>> Cordialement,
>> Mathieu CHATEAUhttp://lordoftheping.blogspot.com
>>
>> "Matt S" <vage...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:1190306146.189732.245410@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>
>>
>> > Greetings!
>> > My company is beginning to think as a larger entity than they used to,
>> > which is good since we've been growing like mad. Previously we had a
>> > "fix if broken" policy of maintenance but we're looking to step away
>> > from that to something more preventative. I was wondering if any of
>> > you folks could recommend a good program to help keep track of what
>> > the servers are doing, when things were fixed and when they are likely
>> > to need it again, etc...
>> > Short of that, I would be interested in hearing anyone's regular
>> > maintenance schedule for their servers.
>> > Thanks all!
>> > Cheers!- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
>
 
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