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Regular Maintenance Tasks
As a best practice, set up regular maintenance tasks for backups and index maintenance. Beware that database
maintenance impacts Cisco TMS performance. Perform these tasks during your organization's scheduled maintenance
windows.
maintenance impacts Cisco TMS performance. Perform these tasks during your organization's scheduled maintenance
windows.
Backup
Set up tasks to back up the server in accordance with your organization's recovery policies, and once per week as a
minimum:
minimum:
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Index Maintenance
Perform maintenance on the database indexes at regular intervals to avoid excessive fragmentation. We suggest
rebuilding the indexes monthly, or when fragmentation goes past 30%.
rebuilding the indexes monthly, or when fragmentation goes past 30%.
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SQL Server Maintenance Plan
If using the full version of SQL Server (not Express), built-in maintenance plan features and a wizard are available for
tasks like the above. For guidance, see the following Microsoft articles:
tasks like the above. For guidance, see the following Microsoft articles:
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Database Size Management
We strongly recommend
against having a regular maintenance task for shrinking the database. Over time, the database
size will normally stabilize, and can be specified as a fixed size with an added 30% buffer.
On some occasions, the database size may grow significantly during an upgrade. In these cases, we recommend a one-
time operation to shrink the database.
time operation to shrink the database.
Security
This section presents recommended and suggested measures to make your Cisco TMS deployment more secure.
Web and API Communication
By default, the Cisco TMS installer will set up HTTPS for web communication, offering to create a self-signed certificate if
the administrator does not provide one. For improved security, we strongly recommend using valid certificates signed by
a certificate authority.
the administrator does not provide one. For improved security, we strongly recommend using valid certificates signed by
a certificate authority.
Note that you must create a regedit entry of TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.1 for Client and Server to enable TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.1
communication between windows server and Cisco TMS. For guidance, see the
communication between windows server and Cisco TMS. For guidance, see the
article.
Configuring IIS for Improved Security
In IIS Manager:
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