Daily check list

Daily Operations Checklist

 have several servers that need checking daily for system
faults, CPU functions, etc. for Dell PowerEdge 850, 1300, 1600SC, 2650, 2850,

Checklist: Performing Physical Environmental Checks

Use this checklist to ensure that physical environment checks are completed.

Task:

· Verify that environmental conditions are tracked and maintained.

· Check temperature and humidity to ensure that environmental
systems such as heating and air conditioning settings are within
acceptable conditions, and that they function within the hardware
manufacturer's specifications.

· Verify that physical security measures such as locks,
dongles, and access codes have not been breached and that they
function correctly.

· Ensure that your physical network and related hardware such
as routers, switches, hubs, physical cables, and connectors are
operational.

Checklist: Check Backups



Task:



· Make sure that the recommended minimum backup strategy of a
daily online backup is completed.

· Verify that the previous backup operation completed.

· Analyze and respond to errors and warnings during the backup
operation.

· Follow the established procedure for tape rotation,
labeling, and storage.

· Verify that the transaction logs were successfully purged
(if your backup type is purging logs).

· Make sure that backups complete under service level agreements (SLA).

· Checklist: Check CPU and Memory Use

· Use this checklist to record the sampling time of each counter.

Checklist: Check Disk Use

Follow the checklist and record the drive letter, designation, and
available disk space.

Task

· Create a list of all drives and label them in three
categories: drives with transaction logs, drives with queues, and
other drives.

· Check disks with transaction log files.

· Check disks with SMTP queues.

· Check other disks.

· Use server monitors to check free disk space.

· Check performance on disks.


Drive Letter
Designation (drives with transaction logs, drives with queues, and
other drives)
Available space MB
Available % free

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Your data here




Your data here






Checklist: Event Logs



Check event logs using the following checklist.

Task

· Check application and system logs on the server to see all errors.

· Check application and system logs on the Exchange server to
see all warnings.

· Note repetitive warning and error logs.

· Respond to discovered failures and problems.



Weekly Maintenance Checklist



Checklist: Create Reports

Use this checklist to create status reports to help with capacity
planning, service level agreement (SLA) reviews, and performance
analysis.

Task:

· Use daily data from event log and System Monitor to create reports.

· Report on disk usage.

· Create reports on memory and CPU usage.

· Generate uptime and availability reports.

Checklist: Incident Reports

Use this checklist to create incident reports.

Task

· List the top generated, resolved, and pending incidents.

· Create solutions for unresolved incidents.

· Update reports to include new trouble tickets.

· Create a document depository for troubleshooting guides and
post- mortems about outages.

Checklist: Antivirus Defense

Use this checklist to perform your antivirus defense.

Task

· Perform a virus scan on each computer.

· Check anti-virus definition updates timely.

Checklist: Status Meeting

Use this checklist to conduct weekly status meetings during which the
tasks are reviewed.

Task

· Server and network status for the overall organization and segments.

· Organizational performance and availability.

· Overview reports and incidents.

· Risk analysis and evaluation including upcoming changes.

· Capacity, availability, and performance reviews.

· Service level agreement (SLA) performance, and review items
that have not met target objectives.