Super simple maintenance page

Create a web page for each system with links to administration and maintenance tasks, each link starts a script somewhere. The maintenance web page could have many elements.
  • Start or Stop system
  • Add, Delete or Modify a thingie (listed per use case or listed per feature)
  • Differential or Full copy to Secondary or Test systems
Hey, you could even throw in links to test the system.
  • Complete self test
  • Manual verification test of each feature, Manual inspection of data (aids manual inspection)
  • Restart system, Reboot hardware (for that special magic bugfixing)
And not to forget, life cycle procedural descriptions.
  • How to set up development environment of the system
  • How to debug current version
  • How to test a new version
  • How to release a new version
Somehow, this simple web page is seldom built and businesses seems to rely on a manual investigation by domain experts.

I am 39 and have yet to see an administration page like this. Its allowed to dream. How about a complete set of such maintenance pages for all systems for a business?

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