Over the course of this chapter, we presented a distillation of best practices. These are either useful when implemented in the real world and save us lot of time or are well-learned lessons, which we recommend not going through anymore.
At first, we went through the various backing up modalities. System administrators have a saying and it goes like this—Backups that are not automated are not done. (Source: http://www.fief.org/sysadmin/). This law could not be truer. Knowing this, we designed automated backup scripts. This way we can sleep well knowing that our job is done.
Moreover, we discussed MySQL database tuning and how to squeeze every drop of performance out of our OCS-NG inventory platform. We have dealt with common setups, hardware specifications, and software-based variables that can be tweaked. We have also overviewed a few scripts that can make the daily life of a system administrator easier: notification sender, .vbs scripting extension to OCS, and remote agent uninstaller...