Mtracks/Merce Audit Checklist

This document describes the checks to be carried out to ensure that an Mtracks/Merce setup is functioning properly at a client site. This document currently contains what to check - each of the "hows" will be hyperlinked to each "what" in this list. The current list is as follows:

1. Perform licence verification. Note down expiry date.
2. Check whether backup is happening if it is enabled.
3. Check free disk space
4. Check whether log rotation is happening or not.
5. Check routing table
6. Check dmesg output
7. If firewall is present, check iptables configuration.
8. Check whether bugfixes mentioned at Buglist [1] have been carried out or not
9. Check crontab entries for root, merce, uucp, etc.
10. Check Master-slave configuration
11. Check report generation of mail, web, disk usage
12. Check website blocking, ad blocking
13. Check whether spamassassin is updated to the latest version or not
14. Check sendmail-rx configuration
15. Check sendmail configuration
16. Check amavis configuration
17. Check mfilter configuration
    1. check LOCALDOMAINS in /etc/mail/mfilter.cf
    2. check domains in /etc/mail/mfilter.rules
    3. Deploy case insensitive check bugfix.
18. Check apache configuration
19. Check named configuration
20. Check samba configuration
21. Deploy script to delete temporary files
22. Check whether /etc/aliases confirms to the backend database entries
23. Check merce_permissions
24. Check output of chkconfig.
25. Check vpn configuration
26. Check uucp configuration
27. Check /opt/merce/lib/Filesendrecvconfig