From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Tue Feb 17 2004 - 11:56:07 EST
We don't run defrags routinely. In fact, I can't remember the last time I
ran a de-frag at all.
We have quite extensive monitoring in place, so we'd expect to get plenty of
advance warning of problems from that. There are a few things which get
done regularly. (I think they're all scheduled.)
Clean-up jobs of various sorts.
mkpasswd
Backups, of course.
Sundry reports on performance and also configuration - useful for DR.
Synchronising data across all our systems. (Common script directories;
/etc/hosts; security stuff.)
Clear statistics, (e.g. netstat and iostat cumulative figures). That
actually doesn't get done on all systems as it's really not very important
to us.
There are other tasks which are done from time to time, such as OS
maintenance level upgrades, but they're not really scheduled or even closely
planned in advance.
Provided you keep things tidy AIX will look after itself pretty well. The
only exception would be if you have an application with special
requirements, (e.g. to run regular de-frags on its own data).
-- Simon Green Altria ITSC Europe Ltd AIX-L Archive at https://new-lists.princeton.edu/listserv/aix-l.html New to AIX? http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/redbooks.nsf/portals/UNIX N.B. Unsolicited email from vendors will not be appreciated. Please post all follow-ups to the list. > -----Original Message----- > From: Lieberg, Patrick [mailto:plieberg@EV3.NET] > Sent: 17 February 2004 16:11 > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU > Subject: AIX Preventative maintenance > > > I was just curious what, if anything, other people were doing > on a regular basis as prevntative maintenance on their AIX > systems. An example would be periodic defrag of file > systems. I monitor our systems pretty closely, but my boss > is asking for a schedule of items we should be doing every so often.
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