4 types of IT maintenance

Do the computers in your office roar like lions and burn like embers in the underworld?

Have your computers taken over the kitchen? Have your computers spent the morning drinking coffee and playing darts? What did you expect? Just like any other electronic device (from a car to a dishwasher), in order to function properly, computers need maintenance.

In fact, due to its importance and complexity, computer equipment maintenance requires special attention.

When approaching the different types of IT maintenance, two aspects must be considered:

• The maintenance includes both hardware and software of the computer. Both are very important and will decisively influence the operation of the system.
• The various types of maintenance can work simultaneously. In the case of corrective maintenance, it will act if the predictive maintenance or preventive maintenance are not able to anticipate the problem.

In this article we will discover the main types of it maintenance, and all about each one of them, and finally we will learn all about a tool that can be very useful in some of the tasks of IT maintenance. And be careful with those wild computers, please!

Predictive Maintenance

It is a type of maintenance that is carried out using diagnostic tools, in order to anticipate possible failures and to try to avoid them before they occur.

One of the most important ways in which this type of maintenance is carried out is through the monitoring of computer systems. This way, one or several operators control the proper functioning of equipment and systems, using tools such as monitoring software, to control all different types of variables, such as temperature of the CPU, battery levels or many others.

Preventive Maintenance

This is a very frequent type of maintenance, which is carried out in order to prevent possible failures and improve the functioning of a system, but also to lengthen the useful life of the different components of the system.

Preventive maintenance is useful in many aspects. For example, it decreases the number of system downtimes or it can reduce the number of repairs, and it can also detect weak points in the system that might affect its operation.

When we talk about preventive maintenance of software, we include operations such as the creation of backup copies, the freeing-up of hard disk space, the freeing-up of RAM memory or the scanning and cleaning of computers through antivirus.

When we talk about preventive hardware maintenance, we usually talk about two different types, which are tasks such as periodic cleaning of equipment and its components, or “active preventive maintenance”, which aims to ensure its durability by protecting the systems from possible environmental aggressions, for example, by separating the computers from areas with a direct impact of sunlight, this is known as “passive preventive maintenance”.

Corrective maintenance

This is the solution that must be applied when the predictive and preventive maintenance have not worked properly or when these have not been able to avoid the failure.

There are times when a computer or system fails (for example due to a hardware failure) but we want it to be operational again and in optimal conditions. Then this will include repairing or replacement operations, depending on the needs of each case.

One of the considerations to be made regarding this type of maintenance is that not only will it be important to solve the failure, but we must also determine what was the cause of it, in order to find the possible repercussions that might have affected other parts of the system and to prevent it from happening again in the future.

Evolutionary maintenance

This type of maintenance is not meant to correct or prevent possible failures, but to develop the computing resources that are available.

As you might already know, dear reader, technology is always evolving, and that means that the tools available and the needs of users also change constantly. With evolutionary maintenance, we want to ensure that computer systems do not become obsolete, but remain updated in order to offer the users the best technology options, depending on the possibilities of each company and organization.

This type of maintenance will include everything from software update tasks to the complete replacement of equipment or systems, depending on the needs.

Summary

And so far, we have looked at the main types of IT maintenance out there. As you can imagine, due to the complexity of this type of operations, this work is usually in the hands of professionals, such as system administrators or specialized companies, who offer maintenance services to companies, professionals or individuals.

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