ZENworks Database and Primary Servers / Scheduled Reboot

Hi all,
I hope I got the correct forum for my questions. If not could an admin be so good to move me to the correct one?
We've got a ZENworks 11.3.1 Zone with 4 Primary Severs (SLES 11SP3) and up to 25 Satellites (mixed OS). The Databases are on MS SQL.
Some times we get very strange behaviour of bundles, policies and ZCC is slow. After taking the Databases down and reboot the four primaries the zone is working fine again for a time.
My question is: Do you reboot your Zone daily/weekly? I did'nt find any recommendations in the documentation.
Thanks in advance for letting me know how you handle this.
Kind regards
Sebastian

tbargfrede <[email protected]> wrote:
> nop1983;2330117 Wrote:
>> tbargfrede <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I hope I got the correct forum for my questions. If not could an
>> admin
>>> be so good to move me to the correct one?
>>>
>>> We've got a ZENworks 11.3.1 Zone with 4 Primary Severs (SLES 11SP3)
>> and
>>> up to 25 Satellites (mixed OS). The Databases are on MS SQL.
>>>
>>> Some times we get very strange behaviour of bundles, policies and ZCC
>> is
>>> slow. After taking the Databases down and reboot the four primaries
>> the
>>> zone is working fine again for a time.
>>>
>>> My question is: Do you reboot your Zone daily/weekly? I did'nt find
>> any
>>> recommendations in the documentation.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for letting me know how you handle this.
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>> Sebastian
>>>
>>
>> Right place
>>
>> No, you should not need to reboot every Day, week or even month. Using
>> a
>> lot of RAM?
>>
>> What about your DB's maintenace plan? How does this look?
>>
>> --
>> Nops
>
> All primaries got up to 6GB RAM which is used normally 50-70%.
> The Database MS SQL Server uses RAM 70-80%
>
> Database maintenance plan: backup every day, shrink every day.
>
> Devices in zone: >2000
> Database size: 23GB
>
Hey
Zpm in place? Thats a large DB, I see 9GB with 2700 devices on sql.
This from the docs:
Check database integrity
Shrink database
Reorganize index
Rebuild index
Update statistics
Back up database
Do you do any of the above? You could give it a try?
Nops

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