Server Installation and Management Project - [University Name]

This project, focusing on server installation and management, covers crucial aspects of server administration. Part A outlines essential server maintenance procedures, emphasizing the importance of verifying backups, checking disk usage, and deleting old software to maintain system efficiency and security. It also details how to define and maintain necessary service levels, considering factors like agent processes, data usage, and scheduling. The project identifies tools such as IBM Tivoli, Azure StorSimple, and Spiceworks Network Monitor for ensuring server functionality. Part B demonstrates the installation of a server within a client's premises, emphasizing the need to advise the client on system downtime, including the importance of providing sufficient notice through multiple communication channels. The project highlights the use of Windows Server 2012 for the installation and provides a comprehensive overview of server management best practices. The project provides a practical guide for students to understand the essential elements of server administration.

Running head: INSTALL AND MANAGE A SERVER
Install and manage a server
(Observation)
Name of the student:
Name of the university:
Author Note

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Part A:
Outlining procedures of server maintenance:
Firstly, it helps to verify the backups that are been working. Prior making any modification to
the production system, it must be assured that the backups are working. One might also intent to run
the recoveries of test as one is going to remove the critical information. As one focuses on the
backups one might assure that they have chosen the suitable location for backup. Next, the disk
usage must be checked. One must never use the production system as the archival system. The old
logs, software versions and old logs are to be deleted as they are not used no longer (Qi, Du and Ge
2017). Here, keeping the system to be free of the old software can limit the issues with the security.
Any smaller footprint of the data indicates the quick recovery. As the usage can exceed the ninety
percent of the capacity of disk, the usage must be reduced and more storage is to be added. As the
partition can reach the utmost percent, the server might halt reacting, the tables of the database could
get corrupted and the information might get lost.
Defining the necessary service levels that are to be maintained:
Firstly, there are the agents and the processes. Next, the call length and the volume is to be
considered as the interactions take long time that the call volume spike. It occurs as the service gets
down and promotion present underway and the levels of service might drop. Then, there is efficient
data usage. The call forecasting and workforce management helps to find out the staffing schedules
and levels directly affecting the service levels. Further, there is the scheduling where the agents can
disappear despite any logging tasking (Al-Najjar, Layeghy and Portmann 2016). Besides, there is the
tracking of occupancy that consist of time spent on tasks that are work-related that is relative to time
they get logged in called rate of occupancy. Then, there is the management of basics assuring the

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groups use solutions properly and trained for controlling the suitable metrics important for
controlling great levels of services. Then, there are streamlining of tools of business.
Identifying tools assuring server functionality:
The IBM Tivoli is the software of integrated enterprise management to control the data
centers involving automation, monitoring and storage. Next, there is the Azure StorSimple to the
storage issues that are brought through huge increase in data. Further, there is the Spiceworks
Network Monitor. This is helpful to control servers and networks and also see and gain alerts n the
data like active processes and services, disk, CPU and the usage of memory (Petersen 2018).
Providing selective independent tests and audits:
The audit is helpful to provide verification that one is in compliance with the regulatory
agencies and secure the organization from the fraudulent economic practices of risks. Besides, the
auditors are able to see that the inventory being is been taken for seeing that inventory that are stated
in the records of accounting exists in reality (dos Santos et al. 2018).

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References:
Al-Najjar, A., Layeghy, S. and Portmann, M., 2016, March. Pushing SDN to the end-host, network
load balancing using OpenFlow. In 2016 IEEE international conference on pervasive computing
and communication workshops (percom workshops) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
dos Santos, F.O., Savio, A., Araujo, M. and Fernandes, N.C., 2018, October. Using Database to
Manage Local Access Users on Network Assets. In Anais Estendidos do XVIII Simpósio Brasileiro
em Segurança da Informação e de Sistemas Computacionais (pp. 130-141). SBC.
Petersen, R., 2018. Network Configuration. In Beginning Fedora Desktop (pp. 549-581). Apress,
Berkeley, CA.
Qi, H., Du, Z. and Ge, L., 2017. Computer Network Management Software.