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System Administrator Checklist

The system administrator checklist provides daily, weekly, and monthly tasks to ensure system health and security. Daily tasks include reviewing audit logs for errors or unauthorized access, performing backups of system and application data, monitoring performance metrics, and ensuring adequate disk space. Weekly tasks are to archive audit logs and perform system and data backups. Monthly tasks involve reviewing permissions and installing patches.

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System Administrator Checklist

The system administrator checklist provides daily, weekly, and monthly tasks to ensure system health and security. Daily tasks include reviewing audit logs for errors or unauthorized access, performing backups of system and application data, monitoring performance metrics, and ensuring adequate disk space. Weekly tasks are to archive audit logs and perform system and data backups. Monthly tasks involve reviewing permissions and installing patches.

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System Administrator Checklist

Daily 1. Review Audit logs Tasks Check application log for warning and error messages for service startup errors, application or database errors and unauthorized application installs b) Check security log for warning and error messages for invalid logons, unauthorized user creating, opening or deleting files c) Check system log for warning and error messages for hardware and network failures Check web/database/application logs for warning and error messages d) Check directory services log on domain controllers Report suspicious activity to IAO a) Tools Windows Event Viewer 2. Perform/verify daily backup Tasks a) Run and/or verify that a successful backup of system and data files has completed b) Run and/or verify that a successful backup of Active Directory files has completed on at least one Domain Controller Tools Windows Backup Tool Veritas Backup Software 3. Track/monitor system performance and activity Tasks a) Check for memory usage b) Check for system paging c) Check CPU usage References www.Microsoft.com - Monitoring Server performance Tools Windows o Microsoft Management Console o Performance Log and Alerts o Task Manager o System Monitor o Microsoft Operations Manager 4. Check free hard-drive space Tasks a) Check all drives for adequate free space b) Take appropriate action as specified by site's Standard Operating Procedures References www.Microsoft.com - Monitoring Server performance

Tools Windows Disk Defragmenter Disk Management Disk Quotas 5. Physical checks of system Tasks a) Visually check the equipment for amber lights, alarms, etc. b) Take appropriate action as specified by site's Standard Operating Procedures

Weekly
1. 2. Archive Audit logs Tasks a) Archive audit logs to a media device with one year retention Perform/verify weekly backup Tasks b) Run or verify that a successful backup of system and data files has been completed Tools Windows Backup Tool Veritas Backup Software

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