BES Maintenance
 

Looking for suggestions or ways you guys run BES maintenance.

How many times per week?
What's included in your script?
What are postives and negatives with each choice?

Thanks

Media

what version/platform of BES are you referring to here?

And how many BlackBerry users do you have and what is the turnover?

2.2 BES on 2K ... and 4.0 2003... about 370 users... the turnover is about 3 deletes every 2 weeks and about 5 -7 every 2- 3 weeks.

What maintenance does BES need????
 

Hi, I'm a newbie with BES.

To my understanding BES doesn't need any maintenance besides keeping SP's up to date and deleting old logs...

What kind of maintenance are you guys talking about?

We don't even delete logs really.

He was probably talking more about OS patches and the like. We handle itlike every other system in our network. Regularly scheduled maintenance windows.

We have 1200 users on BES 2.2 for Domino. We do nightly reboots and nightly fixup, updall, and compact tasks. I changed it from nighly reboots to weekly and we started seeing crashes, so now we are back to nightly reboots.

Crashes with no nightly Reboots?
 

Crashes if you don't do nightly reboots? hmmm...I do scripted monthly reboots, no crashes. My BES is very stable. BES 4.0 SP2. Windows Server 2003. It is a dedicated server. HPDL360 G2.

Ours is up for months at a time. Well actually I think it's about once a month we apply OS updates and it gets rebooted then. RARELY any problems in between then.

Mind you this is 2.2 with 1200 users. Our 4.0 BES SP2 with 180 users never crashes...

I find that the less users you have the better your BES. We run three 4.0 servers. The one with 400 users we rarely have issues with. The server that has 1300 users...forget about...it is a dog. Third server with 900 users is kinda in the middle of the other two. We reboot about once a month for all servers including Windows updates. We still delete the old log directories manually.

I have a question about deleting the logs on the server. Is it ok just to go into the server with explorer and delete them? I'd like to keep about a months worth because we are up to 22.Gig of logs.

my logs were getting huge, 106 gb worth, I changed some logging settings and the issue seems a little but better but now by much.

any thoughts?

Deleting Log files isn't a problem. Normally it's best to keep 3 - 5 days worth of logs in the event something happens and The System Admin/RIM needs the logs. Also it's a good idea to see what you're logging.. perhaps the server is logging unecessary info. Hope this happens.

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