Daily tasks?

[jtnt]

Just wondering what things people do on a regular basis to check on their server and make sure it’s running ok…

What sort of preventative (manual or automated) maintenance do you do daily, weekly or monthly?

[maccanada]

I let the daily, weekly and monthly scripts run and that’s about it.
In terms of checking…
Diskspacemonitor
Server Monitor / SNMP / [insert favourite snmp tool here]

Once my servers are up and running I like to leave them alone to get on with their jobs.

[jtnt]

I guess I don’t really mean tweaking it to make it run better, but things that you check on… Like for security. Any tools you use? Do you keep a "tail -f" of secure.log or anything like that?

Just looking for the stuff anyone monitors and how.

TIA

[maccanada]

Well the logs from the router and firewall on denies/refused packets gets emailed to me, once a day, and immediately on suspicion of intrusion.

Ditto the backup logs. There’s an article on doing a centralized syslog to put all your log files in one location for easier admin.

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