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Questions tagged [maintenance]

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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What are some ways to coordinate server maintenance information with your team?

I am on a team that coordinates maintenance activity and some other activities for some servers in our company. Now that there are more people on the team and more servers under our care, it is getting harder to keep track of issues or tips related…
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How to reduce or shrink the MFT (Master File Table)?

I have a dedicated windows server 2003 with more than 3 millions of files, recently I created a new partition to separate the website files from the OS. Later I reduced the site of the OS with some tools but I saw that the free space in the…
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Easiest way to show Maintenance page during EC2 instance down time

I need to perform some maintenance, which involves down-times of my EC2 production server. I would like to serve some user friendly Maintenance page meanwhile. The easiest solution, I was able to come up with, is to grab some minimalistic Micro…
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Is a 'high' IO rate healthy?

I do a lot of work with my Linode that currently hosts a site, but every now and then (usually once every two months or so) - I'll get a warning about my IO rate being too high (Usually just higher than 6000). The last one I got said: "Your Linode…
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Supermicro server onsite maintenance

We are considering moving from Dell to Supermicro servers. The main concern from management is what to do with maintenance. What do you guys do for same day onsite service maintenance plans?
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What are a regular maintenance you need to perform on your Linux server?

I have a server that host few websites, I haven't done any maintenance for about 2 month other than looking at a couple logs and compressing them. Just wondering what are a regular maintenance you need to perform on your Linux server? Are there any…
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How to show a maintenance page for website when our network is down

We host our ASP.NET web sites internally (within our DMZ). When we are doing network maintenance, etc we would like to have our sites display a maintenance page, but our network is down so our hosting servers are off. We don't host our DNS entries…
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How can I automate the deployment of cisco IOS upgrades?

I was googling this and didn't turn up anything. If you have 100 some odd Cisco routers and switches how do you push out new IOS releases? Certain not by manually logging into every device. The only thing I found was the Cisco Auto-Upgrade Manager,…
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How to check how many users are online?

I administer a ASP.NET website that has decent traffic. In the middle of the day, I sometimes would need to either redeploy the website, change the configuration in the web.config file or make some update to the SQL Server. In theory, when I make…
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Synology volumes vs shared folders

What is the benefit of making more than 1 volume on disk group on Synology DiskStation? Or, in another words, what is the benefit of organising data into a) many volumes vs b) many shared folders on one volume? I'm interested in any considerations…
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Server Uptime Reporting and Tracking

My department maintains 6 servers running both Windows Server 2003 and Ubuntu Server. We have to report and track our uptime. I believe we have to have a 95% uptime and we have no real way to track and report this data. Currently we are just doing…
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Do I really need the PHP maxlifetime hourly cron job?

On my Debian Wheezy, every half-hour a cron job runs: find /var/lib/php5/ -depth -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -ignore_readdir_race -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) ! -execdir fuser -s {} 2>/dev/null \; -delete) This deletes oldish PHP…
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Hot Swap Ultra320 SCSI LTO-Tape Drive

Can an Ultra320 SCSI LTO tape drive (or any SCSI device) be hot swapped without needing to power down the system? The current LTO tape drive is the only device on the SCSI host. If the above can be done, then what problem(s) could I run into when…
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What is on your periodic system maintenance? (Windows)

I'm looking at creating a schedule and list of periodic maintenance for our Windows servers (2k3, 2k8). Any thoughts, suggestions or ideas of things that should be implemented. Bonus points for Citrix tasks that should be done.
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What is a good backup plan for Hyper-V Virtual Images?

I have one machine with Hyper-V (not the bare metal version - the Windows 2008 OS version) that we are experimenting with. I would love to backup from the host OS and not from each individual virtual machine. I would love to be able to simply make a…
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