NT application Server Settings,

shine

shine

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hello list,
We have just got installed a windows application server with win2k3 R2 and hope its working fine.
i have some basic queries,

1. what is the best antivirus for the server.or do we need a antivirus
2. under .../b7334/PD7334/ i can see folder with each user name who fired jobs. do i need to delete these on periodically?it contails some .pak files
3. does the nt server need any periodic tuning/maintenance like the as400 SQL pkg deleteion?
thanks in advance.
Shine
2.
 
Hi, Shine.

We have a Wintel application server for testing and some interop. Not sure about the best anti-virus. We use Trend Micro's OfficeScan on all Windows machines. I normally turn the services off when building and deploying full packages.

I believe the folders under the pathcode are used to store version specs submitted with UBE jobs. I think it's safe to delete them after the jobs have completed.

You should plan to bounce your server periodically. If my server was used in Production, I would plan to reboot it every night to free up allocated memory and release file locks.

Cheers.
 
Hi,

You can delete those pak files after shutting down JDE
services, those are created as temporary files when
users submit their UBEs.
Regarding AntiVirus, you can safely disable scanning
for the following extensions : C, H, HXX, OBJ, LIB,
XDB, DDB, PAK, PDF, LOG, CSV, INF. So far, I'd say that
McAfee and Norton run pretty well.
If you have any database locally installed on the
App Server, try not to scan its physical files
(extensions MDF, LDF, NDF for MSDE and MSSQL).
Most of JDE files belong to those categories, excluding
all of these extensions will greatly help you to reduce
disk activity.
It's always convenient to defrag your disks, let's say
once a month, Packages create >100000 NTFS entries each,
many of them are small files so they may have a noticeable
fragmentation impact.
Finally, I agree with rebooting your server periodically,
could be from daily to weekly, depends on your activity.

Regards,
 
thanks..

Many thanks to you all.
Just curious,
when ever a fire a job to As400 its cPU will jump into 45 to 75% and with NT it is always a 4 or 8% of the total.
is there any special .ini settings applicable only for NT platform?
thanks again.
 
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