Day-to-day system management activities

support users and applications and secure the system
The system should be configured so that they are easy to use by users.

Technical Support
System management should provide technical support to users who may lack technical knowledge. this could help users with issues they have.

User Management
A system manager will be responsible for creating user acoounts, allocating their passwords and setting their access level. Access levels are important if all employees had administrator access you make your organisation very vulnerable to internal threats as an employee with a conflict of interest or simply a malicious employee could do a lot of damage.

System Monitoring
To help identify problems on a system quickly active monitoring is important. Tracking things such as disk and memory use. It is also important to identify computer misuse which could potentially expose the network to external risks.

Installing software updates and patches
Keeping software up to date is important. For example, an outdated antivirus database will make your pc more susceptible to viruses. This is because new viruses will have different signatures that your antivirus software may not recognise.

Implementing and Checking backups
Implementing multiple backup procedures should be done to ensure the data is safe in the event of a disaster. The backup implemented with depend on the needs of a user.

Checking backups have been completed successfully should be done. This allows any errors in the backup process to be corrected. Having robust backup procedures will allow your data to be retrieved in the event that the data is lost.

Checking disk space
It is important that a user has adequate disk space.

Other issues
Network users may report issues occurring at any point. So it is important that the issue is diagnosed and corrected.

Variety of systems to manage
As a system manager your network almost certainty consist of multiple end devices such as Mobile devices, laptops, desktops etc. It is important you know how to implement access control for each of the end devices.

Upgrades
It is important to consider any long term upgrades your organisation may need in terms of hardware requirements, or OS (Operating system) requirements. You should always consider getting substantially better than you need to future proof yourself.

Evaluation
In system management there are a lot of activities that should be performed daily. These activities can improve system security as failure of backups could leave devastating results if left unchecked. These activities could help the performance of the network by finding faults or bottlenecks in the network.