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maintenance is keeping hardware and/or software systems in a healthy state by performing tasks such as updating, cleaning or replacing parts.

maintenance is keeping hardware and/or software systems in a healthy state by performing tasks such as updating, cleaning or replacing parts.

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MSSqlServer 2008 how to migrate sys.message to another server ? (eventID 18054)

Recently I've replaced a sql server (2008R2). I've reinstalled hosted apps and restored backups of databases. All seems to work as expected except that these events are shown in the eventlog : id 18054 in MSSQLSERVER Error 150010, severity 16,…
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Nagios is sending notifications for hosts with scheduled downtime

I've got the whole Nagios configured, it's working for a while now with many many hosts and everything is OK, except the one thing I've discovered. When I schedule a downtime for a host, it's sending notifications anyway. Is it some kind of a bug?…
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Nginx: maintenance mode with "is a developer" check

It's much variants described in Internet how to display maintenance page with nginx. But I didn't find the solution to check if user is a developer and not to display maintenance page for developers. I use try_files, which does't works as I need…
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Tomcat behind Apache: redirect everything to maintenance except one

I need to redirect all requests to a maintenance page except a specific URL that could still give me the possibility to access the normal website. I googled but I did not find anything. Right now I am redirecting with: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond…
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what can I do when the server refused to connect by ssh

I have a server running well before but today I can not ssh to it, it shows me: ssh: connect to host 10.0.0.117 port 22: Connection refused I guess something is wrong with it but I can not log onto it so what can I do at this situation, at least to…
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Gentoo maintenance [make updating]

I have installed and adjusted Gentoo distro with GNOME-3.1. To achieve this installation I had to add many-many lines to package.accept_keywords. Now (after a couple of months) I've decided to update my system with the following command: emerge…
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Failed Simple Maintenance Plan only when Full Backups do not run

Let me start off that I'm new to SQL administration and have inherited an older server that serves the main DB for our day in/out operations. So, my apologies in advanced to my beginner questions. What I've been tasked with is to discover why the…
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Create a SQL Server full backup without affecting maintenance plan?

We use a centralized SQL Server 2005 server for web development. The server has a maintenance plan to take a full backup each Sunday and incremental backups on all other nights. All databases use the Simple Recovery Model, so transaction logs are…
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set all apache sites offline with temporary static cached original pages

I would like to set all virtualhosts on my server down for maintenance for some time. The temporary page should contain something like sorry, the page www.xxx.com is down for maintenance. you can see the cached version here: Then the trick:…
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Is there a practical server host naming convention?

To maintain many servers, how do you give a name to your servers? By only server's hostname, I would like to classify the server's kind of service, whether virtual machine or not, stages(alpha, beta, real), hardware specs and so on. Is there an…
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Strange Maintenance Plan SubPlans behaviour: each SP runs all the tasks of all other SP at odd times

SQL Server 2005: I have a problem with scheduling a Maintenance Plan (MP) with 3 subplans (SP). SP1 is scheduled to run hourly, SP2 daily at 7.00 and SP3 on sundays at 8.00 Reading MP history I see that what happened (I know it seems crazy)…
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Update Statistics Strategy after Index Maintenance Activity

Since Index Rebuilds will update statistics data for the concerned indexes with full scan, so it is not advisable to update statistics on those indexes using the Update Statistics with default sample size. This will worsen the statistics data…
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What are the basics of laser printers and their maintinance?

Printers are mysterious Pandora's boxes from Hell, of which I know little about. I turn to you demon-tamers for your knowledge. What are the key parts of a laser printer? What are the typical print quality problems (ex. lines through the document),…
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Exchange Server 2003 scheduled maintenance - Best Practice / Tips

What scheduled maintenance, tasks or jobs should be performed on Exchange Server and how often?
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Windows Server 2008 - Simple Method for Web Request to a Maintenance Page URL?

I'd like to setup an ASP.NET page that performs some maintenance for a web application. What is a simple method for making a web request to the URL for this maintenance page? I typically use Windows Tasks for these things, but I don't know how to…
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