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Periodic Maintenance Tasks

The following lists details the tasks you can perform for general CA SiteMinder® maintenance. The CA Services implementation team typically covers the details for these tasks, which are based on the specific environment:

• Apply operating system patches.

  Frequency: monthly or as required

• Apply CA SiteMinder® cumulative patches.

  Frequency: monthly or as required

• Monitor the performance of CA SiteMinder® using the CA SiteMinder® OneView Monitor, CA Wily (or an equivalent tool).

  Frequency: continuous

• Monitor the performance of the backend repositories.

  Frequency: continuous

• Back up the backend repositories using native or CA SiteMinder® tools.

  Frequency: dependent on the requirements of your organization

• Maintain the backend repositories using native tools. Examples of this maintenance include the following items:
  • Indexing
  • Backing up the transaction logs to reduce the consumption of disk space.

  Frequency: dependent on the requirements of your organization

• Remove the tombstones of deleted objects from the policy store by running the XPSSweeper utility.

  Frequency: Every 24 hours. This schedule helps reduce the size of the policy store.

• Archive CA SiteMinder® log files.

  Frequency: dependent on the requirements of your organization

• Audit CA SiteMinder® policies and adjust/optimize as required.

  Frequency: dependent on the requirements of your organization

• Audit authentication and authorization failures. Escalate the events as required.

  Frequency: continuous