VISTA System Management Daily or Weekly Tasks
From VistApedia
The VISTA system, like any other database, needs to be monitored appropriately. I will mention here database related monitoring and then VISTA related monitoring. Many of the tasks that are inexpensive to check are better checked with a continuous such as Nagios or Munin.
Database monitoring
- Global growth rate
- Lock table consumption
- Daily back-up is happening daily; weekly check that the backup that was made can actually bring the system back-up
- Journal file growth rate
- Back-up and Journal file rotation (delete old ones based on business requirements)
- Database blocks integrity checks
Other system
* Check disk space for all partitions * Check printer queues * # of processes * Processes consuming 100% of a single CPU that are running for more than 1 hour * Network latency for all major network nodes in which the database is spread out; and from where it is usually accessed by users.
VISTA Specific
* Taskman performance, especially: ** Resource Devices ** Printer Devices * Global growth by specific Fileman file * HL7 messages continuous flow * Error trap * Taskman error trap * Check ^TMP, ^XTMP and ^%ZTSK making sure that they are appropriately purged daily * Check programmer mode log-ins * Check excessive log-ins from a single location * Check that nightly tasks ran (can be ignored as long as there are no history of problems) * Mailman ** Check disk usage ** Check user's usages ** Check queues to make sure that they are not backed up * Check Alerts ** How many? ** Who isn't processing them? ** System (errors) or Clinical Alerts? * PIMS Reports ** Potential duplicate patients recently entered ** Patient movements that are incomplete (I don't know how to do that)
