Routine performance maintenance

Unit 5 (D1)

Why carry out routine maintenance

Routine performance maintenance 

It’s important to maintain a network due to the amount of strain that it under, when the network isn’t getting attacked it has multiple people connecting to it and constantly adapting to peoples demands, this causes it to occasionally malfunction, we call this a fault in the network, however there a procedures in place to try to prevent such incidents.

Backing up data is important part of maintaining a network as if anything happens you always have an extra copy of all the data, this can solve lots of problems such as if data becomes corrupt, or a virus affects files. This is part of routine maintenance should be done every day to insure that files are secure and backed up and aren’t lost.

User accounts are created and deleted on a regular basis, it is important that such accounts are removed from the servers as they take up space and can be used to access the system if they aren’t deleted when they should have been. This could pose a security risk, as when a user leaves from the network if their account isn’t deleted then they can still access the network.

Scans for viruses should be carried out every day as new versions are created every day, the server will have to defend against these attacks, however as one is created, a defence is then also created. However the virus can sometimes creep in on any data, this is when an internal scanner should detected and remove the virus, however the firewall will usually prevent anything that isn’t legit from passing it.

File clean up, is a software that removes unused files such as internet history and cache as they can slow the computer up quite a bit, also files that are not needed are also removed and checked for integrity, this helps the server run more efficient and helps the quality of the service it can provide.

The log resources should be checked to insure that nothing in regular has happened, once this is done they can be deleted so that they do not slow the server down and reduce the quality of service.

If all of the procedures are done then the quality of service the users will receive will be increased as it prevents the server from having faults, overloaded with unused data, and increases the life of the server.