System Maintenance

What is it?
System maintenance is the inspecting, repairing and modification of a system to improve upon. There are different types of system maintenance. Including corrective, adaptive, perfective and preventive

Corrective
Corrective maintenance is where faulty equipment or system are attempted to be restored to an operational condition or replaced entirely.

Preventive
Preventive maintenance is maintenance with the goal of preventing faults from occurring.

Predictive
Predictive maintenance is maintenance with the goal of predicting a fault before it occurs.

Backups
Backups are essential. Many people do not realise the value of their data until its gone. Corrupt drives can cause a lot of issues so backups are very important and could mitigate the risk of data corruption.

Cloud storage could be used as a backup procedure as it can provide a reliable offsite backup. The only issue is restore times can be slow.

User Groups
User groups are something a business should implement to help reduce the damage a rogue employee may cause by restricting the employees ability to only access what is required to complete his/her working duties.

Software
Keeping software up to date is important. See Day-to-day system management activities for more information. Or even getting more capable software. It all depends on the requirements of the system.

Evaluation
System maintenance is the inspecting, repairing and improving upon a system to meet its requirements. Maintenance can help identify performance issues and even security issues. To give an example maintenance could discover that the server room can be easily accessed.