Server Fault Stack Exchange
Server Fault Stack Exchange

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.

247 questions
14
votes
9 answers

MMORPG server maintenance

It seems that most mmorpg games have some regular server maintenance, some every day, some once a week. What is it that they actually have to do, and why is it necessary ? If you start with such a project what can you do to avoid this ?
Zitrax
  • 794
  • 2
  • 11
  • 21
7
votes
7 answers

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…
BrianH
  • 263
5
votes
3 answers

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…
Berek Bryan
  • 394
4
votes
25 answers

What do you do to prevent stupid mistakes?

I saw this comment: "Been there, done that. We aliased the killall-command on the solaris-boxes after that: alias killall='echo ORLLY?' =) – Commander Keen May 28 at 12:03" In response to an answer. It made me wonder, what do sysadmins do…
jtimberman
  • 7,597
  • 2
  • 34
  • 42
1
vote
0 answers

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…
koder
  • 123
0
votes
3 answers

How to maintain servers without disconnecting clients?

I am designing/developing new messenger service (just like Yahoo, Gtalk messengers). So, my clients will be continuously connected to the servers. I like to know how such servers can be maintained (applying fixes, upgrades etc) while clients are…
ServerDesigner
  • 1