Maintenance Overview

To ensure maximum performance and availability from Chat Service, it is recommended that you set up and follow a regular maintenance program. The goal of regular maintenance is to identify and correct potential problems before they become real problems that affect your chat users.

The following maintenance functions make up the Chat Service maintenance program:

Backing Up and Restoring Your Configuration: Explains how to create a file that allows you to restore a server's Chat Service configuration or to quickly propagate a configuration to other servers on a chat network.
Monitoring Chat Service: Explains the benefits of using Performance counters to monitor performance data for unusual values.
Logging Chat Service Events: Explains how to set up a Performance Monitor log to record specific events on a chat server.
Viewing Messages with Event Viewer: Explains how to use the Windows NT Event Viewer to view all server messages or only those messages that are generated by Chat Service events.