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Scheduling Peripheral Maintenance [ Performing System Management Tasks ] MPE/iX 5.0 Documentation


Performing System Management Tasks

Scheduling Peripheral Maintenance 

As system manager, you want a general maintenance schedule to keep the
system working properly.  You can develop one like this yourself, or
you can request Hewlett-Packard support personnel to help you.
Hewlett-Packard shows you how to clean the peripherals when the system is
set up.  Table 12-7  gives an example of recommended maintenance
procedures.

          Table 12-7.  Peripheral Maintenance Schedule 

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|                              |                              |                              |
|          Peripheral          |            Cycle             |             Duty             |
|                              |                              |                              |
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|                              |                              |                              |
| Printers                     | Daily                        | Vacuum all paper path areas. |
|                              |                              |                              |
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|                              |                              |                              |
|                              | Daily                        | Wipe off paper dust from     |
|                              |                              | outside the printer.         |
|                              |                              |                              |
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|                              |                              |                              |
|                              | Daily                        | Vacuum the paper supply and  |
|                              |                              | paper stock areas.           |
|                              |                              |                              |
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|                              |                              |                              |
|                              | When necessary               | Remove pieces of paper stuck |
|                              |                              | in the loading tractors.     |
|                              |                              |                              |
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|                              |                              |                              |
|                              | When necessary               | Change print ribbons.        |
|                              |                              |                              |
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|                              |                              |                              |
|                              |                              |                              |
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|                              |                              |                              |
| Tape Drives                  | Before using first time      | Clean tape drive.            |
|                              |                              |                              |
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|                              |                              |                              |
|                              | When necessary               | Clean tape path.             |
|                              |                              |                              |
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|                              |                              |                              |
|                              | After eight hours of use     | Clean tape path.             |
|                              |                              |                              |
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|                              |                              |                              |
|                              | After several days of        | Clean tape path.             |
|                              | inactivity                   |                              |
|                              |                              |                              |
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|                              |                              |                              |
|                              |                              |                              |
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|                              |                              |                              |
| Disk Drives                  | After repeated RESET         | Clean removable disk drive.  |
|                              | messages                     |                              |
|                              |                              |                              |
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|                              |                              |                              |
|                              |                              | Clean removable cover of the |
|                              |                              | disk pack.                   |
|                              |                              |                              |
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