Search for	Example	Results
A single word	`cat`	Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats".
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase.	`"cat food"` (quotation marks)	Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase.

Search for	Operator	Example
Two or more words in the same topic	`AND` `and` `+` (plus symbol) `&` (ampersand)	`cat AND dog` `"cat food"+milk` `"cat food"&"dog food"`
Either word in a topic	`OR` `or` `\|` (pipe)	`cat OR dog` `cat \| dog`
Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase	`NOT` `not` `!` (exclamation point)	`NOT cat` `! dog`
Topics that contain one string and do not contain another	`^` (caret)	`cat ^ mouse`
A combination of search types	`( )` parentheses	`cat + (dog \| mouse)` `cat \| dog + (! mouse)`

Service Manager9.52

Administer > Service Manager maintenance tasks > Areas of maintenance tasks > Cleanup tasks

Cleanup tasks

The following table lists maintenance tasks that a System Administrator needs to perform in the Cleanup area. For information about other areas, see Areas of maintenance tasks.

Event or frequency	Task	Automatable
Before going to production	Clean up out-of-box data records	No
Before going to production	Reset sequential numbers	No
Before going to production	Reset the “Times updated” field in globalists	No
Before going to production	Disable unused background processes	No
Monthly	Purge or archive data records	Yes
Daily	Purge queue records	Yes
Weekly	Purge logs	Yes
Before startup	Clean up server side log files	Yes
Weekly	Purge dbdicts containing log information	Yes
Weekly	Clean up AUDIT* records if auditing backup is turned on	Yes

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