Administration Server maintenance

The Administration Server maintenance allows you to free up space in the folder of the Administration Server and reduce the database volume by deleting objects that are no longer needed. This helps you to improve the performance and operation reliability of the application. We recommend that you maintain the Administration Server at least every week.

The Administration Server maintenance is performed using the dedicated task. The application performs the following actions when maintaining the Administration Server:

• Deletes unnecessary folders and files from the storage folder.
• Deletes unnecessary records from tables (also known as "dangling pointers").
• Clears the cache.
• Maintains the database (if you use SQL Server or PostgreSQL as a DBMS):
  • Checks the database for errors (available only for SQL Server).
  • Re-organizes database indexes.
  • Updates the database statistics.
  • Shrinks the database (if necessary).

The Administration Server maintenance task supports MariaDB versions 10.3 and later. If you use MariaDB versions 10.2 or earlier, administrators have to maintain this DBMS on their own.

The Administration Server maintenance task is created automatically when you install Kaspersky Security Center. If the Administration Server maintenance task is deleted, you can create it manually.

To create the Administration Server maintenance task:

1. In the main menu, go to Devices → Tasks.
2. Click the Add button.

   The New task wizard starts.

3. In the New task window of the wizard, select Administration Server maintenance as the task type and click the Next button.
4. Follow the rest of the wizard instructions.

The newly created task is displayed in the list of tasks. Only one Administration Server maintenance task can be running for a single Administration Server. If an Administration Server maintenance task has already been created for an Administration Server, no new Administration Server maintenance task can be created.