Routine server maintenance server 2003 2

[Frank666]

Can anyone give me advice on what I should be doing to keep the servers running well, apart from looking at the event log etc.? Is there a white paper on server maintenance anywhere?

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

Most use some type on monitoring system. Just depends on your budget - MS MOM, BMC, Tivoli, IPSentry, etc...

You should be monitoring each of your four Hardware subsystems:
1. CPU
2. RAM
3. DISK
4. Network

Software:
1. Services
2. Processes

Jesse Hamrick

http://www.powershellpro.com

 

[Frank666]

Thanks for the speedy reply, I was thinking more of manual checks, I thought maybe there was a document by microsoft detailing what to do but I cannot find anything useful

 

[itsp1965]

What exactly do you mean by manual checks? The Event log, Task Manager and System Monitor are as about as manual as you can get.

 

[PaulGillespie]

Disk space, windows updates, disk defrag.

 

[itsp1965]

For diskspace - you can create a script that reports what's available
Windows Updates - Check Add/Remove programs or run the WMIC command
Disk Defrag - You can always schedule a job to run defrag in the background or check disk administrator once a week

 

[Frank666]

Yes thanks, defrag is the sort of thing I was talking about, is there any utility that can be run on a server to sort out the registry or is that a bad thing to do? Our servers are probably coming to the end of their lives and we want to keep them going for a bit longer

 

[itsp1965]

Windows 2003 has a defrag command line utility that you can use. Sysinternals has pagedefrag that will defragment your pagefile and registry hives (

http://www.microsoft.com/sysinternals)

Hope this helps.