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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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How to allow root login server and disallow website users connection in centos 7 maintenance period?

My clound VPS server is centos 7.4,I run apache,mariadb in this server. Now,I want to migrate from mariadb to mysql. During maintenance, server need no user disturb. In centos 7, has no run level 1,then I read this post and tried systemctl…
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Nginx - A common maintenance page for multiple dockerized Angular applications

I am hosting multiple Angular apps with Nginx. All of them run in their own containers and if a container is offline, I display a maintenance page located at /var/www/maintenance/. To do this, my virtual host configuration files are generally like…
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Is there a query to check which maintenance plans have shrink enabled in SQL Server 2008?

I know you can use a query to find out which databases have auto-shrink enabled but I'm wondering if this can be done for maintenance plans. Right now we only have a few maintenance plans so it's easy enough to check manually but I can see how it…
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Active Directory - User profile/workstation administration without file-service access - Best practice

We are a small company with 15 users which is now setting up its first Active Directory (1 machine with Windows Server 2016 Essentials). I am unsure how to setup a secure environment for my situation in regards of workstation maintenance (and I am…
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Debian squeeze - Unable to upgrade bash

I'm trying to upgrade bash so its not vulnerable. I tried Sources List Generator for Debian. But libtinfo5 is stopping me from upgrading bash. I could not find older version (due to source list issue) of libtinfo5 to see if could install…
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What is the proper way to keep Ubuntu Server 8.04 updated?

I have a web server running Ubuntu Server 8.04 and I would like to know the proper commands to keep it updated. I’ve been using apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, but occasionally it tells me that there are packages held back. I’ve been using…
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make shutdown / reboot warn on a shared server in case of user sessions or high load

Is there an easy way to warn an admin on shutdown, reboot, poweroff, halt, ... about: ongoing computations (high load, high disk io) open bash / zsh / ... terminal sessions other logged in users screen / tmux sessions I'm looking for a solution…
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Postfix relay, how to put the relay in maintenance ? (stop listening to port 25 but finish sending active queue)

I do use a postfix relay that does some custom mail filtering. Sometimes this is need for maintenance to disable this relay. I need the relay to stop listen to port 25 so that other MX records still process mails to user inboxes However at the same…
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Security maintenance on cloud instances created with docker-machine?

After reading about some people's issue with Docker hosts' time going out of sync, I realized that my Docker host on Digital Ocean (created via docker-machine) may want ntp running on it, and that got me thinking about system updates to the Docker…
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How to automate disk checking in Windows?

Chkdsk is a very manual, technical solution Hard Drive checking in Windows reports a lot of unnecessary info, requiring that you read through it the chkdsk report, etc. Also chkdsk can't fix problems on an in-use files (like the Windows drive). It…
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Hitachi CR210 console command

I am looking for command for console for Hitachi CR210. this is the equivalent of HP ILO, where you can connect to ILO IP with ssh, have access to console (if OS is in text mode), issue power off/on hosts, simulate a blade withdrawal and all. login…
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Determining optimal maintenance windows for end-user system patching

What would be good information to use in order to identify and report on times when the highest number of transient end-user systems such as laptops are connected to the network? Available to me is event log information from the following systems:…
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What is an effective backup strategy for my server?

Last night my dedicated server with Hivelocity crashed. The admin told me after 6 hours of requesting support that my hard disk is down and it's showing up as 0MB. I've requested a server reload that is still to be executed. I took a backup 5 days…
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What are reasons to have a site 'down for maintenance'?

What are reasons to have a site 'down for maintenance'? I seen a few go down with this message. I have seen others that are never down for maintenance. What are reasons a site may be down? And what can I do (if possible) to not have a site go down…
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What is recommended size of hard disk for a Server?

I have heard that large hardisk >= 1TB are not recommended on the server because they can cause synching issues if one fails + their chances of failure is greater over a longer period of time as the hard disk get fuller. Is that assumption…
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