Personally, I usually schedule physical maintenance once per calendar year on all my servers. Primarily, I have the muffler bearings lubricated inside. We also check the bit bucket and empty it if need be. Sometimes a buffer overflows into the bit bucket, unpatched machines in particular tend to need to be emptied.
Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Rochford Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 3:49 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Hardware Suggestions > I like SCSI and IDE not only for their proven track record > [server and desktop respectively] but because the dang cables > don't get knocked off each time I reach into the case. Those > cable connections on the back of the SATA drives are a little > worrying. I've accidentally bumped the connection off my > workstation at home twice while adding the Happauge card and what not. I can understand that with a home machine you're going to be taking the top off at regular intervals to play with it (err; upgrade hardware etc) but why on earth would you ever open a server unless it has a fault? We have servers that go their entire life without being opened up. Is there some major bit of server management that I'm missing by not taking it apart on a regular basis?? Steve List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
