General checklist for the holiday season

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With the holiday season looming ahead this week, here is a generic checklist that you can follow-

• Disable application logging - Enabling application logging for APIs, services, agents can cause memory issues on the application and can lead to high response times
• Ensure that there is enough (Audit/Index and Trans) space to accommodate the holiday volume in the  database- Under high volume table space can get quickly filled up and cause  critical OMS processes to fail.
• Check the storage on all the Agent, Application server boxes and MQ server boxes - Insufficient storage in the logs and other application folders can cause latency in the application.
• Do a cyclic restart all the Application servers, agent/integration servers and IHS servers - To collect any leaked memory, open sockets and to overcome other resource leak which might have occurred during the application lifecycle.
• Check for queues with very high queue depth(> 15000) - Typically queues with large queue depth indicates the backlog and requires immediate action to clear the backlog
• Backup all the old logs(older than 3 days) on the Application and Agent/Integration server boxes. - To ease troubleshooting and quicker issue resolution during the peak days.