Linux/Admin/Regular Scheduled Maintainence

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TOPIC: Regular scheduled maintenence downtime

To schedule a regular maintenence time for possible downtime, or reboots. Possible time to reboot servers on a set schedule. Time will be negotiated with all users for 30 to 90 minutes on a particular day, or set annouced schedule.

(Regular schedule could be: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Yearly ?)

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PROS

  • A scheduled time to do maintaince/updates
  • gives the system a chance to clean itself up.
    • due orphaned process
    • due to memory fragmentation/leaks
  • Assures that recent patches, and security releases are correctly loaded.
  • Good time to do Kernel updates and patches (via 'YaST/System Update')
  • Assures that system can survive an un-scheduled downtime without sys admin intervention.
  • Test functionality to make sure critical services are still functional as expected.
  • Continuation with WWU Campus standards and practices.
  • Closer to methodology that AdmCS and Technical services follows.
    • (Note: Eventually they will be running and managing this server)
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CONS

  • "Unnecessary" in some people's opinion.
  • Services unavailabe during downtime.
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Resources and references

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