Ongoing System Concerns

After a system goes into production, many operational situations arise. Good capacity planning tries to allow for these types of situations. The most common are discussed briefly here.

New Software Releases

As noted in the section “Monitoring for Growth” earlier in this chapter, network, machine, and application administrators should log any changes made to a production Project Server environment or system. This should be done in the context of an ongoing system monitoring or change policy.

Information Life Cycle—Archive and Retention Policies

Over time, the database sizes will expand; however, the information within the databases has a life cycle. Projects end; resources leave—these factors mean that pruning of information ...

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