Although I’ve been using SharePoint for 6 years, I’ve not had any Administration training. I’m trying to determine how frequently I should be going in to review the health of the servers in my farms (one dev farm, one production farm).
Is there a “best practice” concerning checking and maintaining servers?
I’m trying to figure out how I often I should be doing things to prevent issues and to write documentation of what my job entails (I’m the admin, the user support, the developer, the designer for our organization).
I’d be interested to hear the suggestions/guidelines from the community.
SP2010 – I dedicate an hour or so every morning to check all servers in my farm. I normally start out with the event logs to see if anything unusual is happening or has happened. Then address it if need be. Disk space should be checked often. SQL is a server I give special attention to. Make sure scheduled (custom) jobs have ran correctly, disk space, etc. Maybe once a month I run Performance Monitor to check on IIS request time, asp.net calls, cache, etc. I also take time to check User Profiles sync (FIMS – not sure about 2013) jobs are running correctly as well. I also check on the Search Service Application to ensure all is well. I am sure there is more but that’s pretty much it for me.
