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Asked: 2026-05-16T23:38:38+00:00

I am working on redoing a weekly report, I send, to anyone on our

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I am working on redoing a weekly report, I send, to anyone on our development team.

The previous version just sent sql server based scheduled jobs status, backup status, and database size.

But for this new version, will have more information from every part of our server.

Coldfusion:

  1. Verify Main Datasource
  2. List Scheduled Tasks
  3. Server Version
  4. Undelivered Mail

IIS:

  1. Current Connection Count

SQL Server:

  1. Database Size
  2. Drive Space % LEft
  3. Last Backup Date

So what I am asking about is two things.

(1) What other essential must have information, would be useful to have/see on a weekly basis via email?

(2) How to best present or display that information, that looks professional, albeit inside an html email, without looking like eye candy? Because right now i just have a simple bullet list of server aspect and statuses. I want to make it look really professional.

Any suggestions, ideas, links to inspirations…etc…

My goal is to automate keeping my team informed about any key issues about the server, in a way anyone can understand.

Thank You for your time.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Is the goal to have the developers be aware of a problem? Then fail loudly and succeed silently. Otherwise the failures/problems will soon be ignored.

    Send a report when the drive space is critical with a subject line “DRIVE SPACE CRITICAL!”

    Send a report when the backup didn’t occur saying “BACKUP FAILED!”

    From control room design: every alarm should have a unique response, and no alarm should be generated for events that have no corrective action – the event should be journaled to a log that the developers can go inspect.

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