Customising Ola's maintenance solution

I am a big fan of using Ola Hallengren's backup and maintenance solution.

https://ola.hallengren.com/

But there may be times that you want to customise his solution to meet your own needs or to comply with a companies database standards.

I never change the underlying maintenance.sql file.

What I usually do is to have a set of additional scripts that can be run after the main maintenance script.

An example of the scripts that I run are:

- rename jobs to comply with a standard and disable all the jobs

- create one cleanup job that has the job steps for command log cleanup, output file cleanup, delete backup history, purge job history and a new job step to cycle the error log

- drop the jobs that were created for command log cleanup, output file cleanup, delete backup history and purge job history

- create schedules for all jobs

I also have separate scripts to enable/disable all the jobs.

Finally I have a script to uninstall the whole maintenance solution (tables, stored procs, functions and jobs) - required for testing or if I make a mistake and need to start all over again.