FIM 2010: Planning maintenance operations
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Introduction
After you have put your FIM configuration in production, you need to schedule for FIM operational management tasks.
This article provides you with a checklist of items to plan for to maintain your FIM properly and to keep it in a healthy state.
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Frequency definitions
For most of the FIM maintenance tasks, there is no fixed or mandatory time schedule, as these tasks depend on the installed features or required functionality/SLA.
But in general, you can split up the maintenance tasks into the following categories
| Frequency | Description |
| Regular - High | Depending daily operations, in normal schedule |
| Regular - Medium | Depending off-peak, lower pressure moments in normal schedule |
| Regular - Low | Once for x months, every quarter, 1 or 2x per year |
| Regular - Depending | Related to external release schedule of exterDepending availability (scheduled for maintenance windows) |
| Exceptional | Not related to release schedules, but depending external factors, usually requires immediate attention or immediate action like highly critical security hotfixes. |
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General
Servers
| Task | Frequency |
| Monitor Hardware: CPU, Memory, disks |
DRP
| Task | Frequency |
| Check & validate disaster recovery planning | |
| Test DRP |
Security
| Task | Frequency |
Hotfixes
| Task | Frequency |
Infrastructure
| Task | Frequency |
| Scale up (more resources on existing servers) |
FIM Components
FIM Synchronization
Task scheduling
| Task | Frequency |
| Delta sync cycle | |
| Full Sync cycle |
Run history cleaning
| Task | Frequency |
| Clean FIM Sync run history |
FIM Service & Portal
| Task | Frequency |
SQL
Database maintentance
| Task | Frequency |
| Indexes - Reindex / rebuild | |
| Backup with log truncation | |
| Shrink data bases | NEVER |
| Defragmentation | |