Server go *fzzzht*
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tugrikWhen the power went down, all the tools did what they were supposed to do. Players on FM were automatically alerted that we were on battery power. I was politely paged as my computers told me they were going to take a nap soon. The one or two boxen that weren't fully automated gave polite reminders, and I logged in and shut them down. When we ran out of battery power, all went silent safely and calmly.
4+ hours later, all comes back up. All is happy.
Well, except for monoceros.fbrtech.com. It didn't care if it was shutdown safely or not. The venerable old P250 Canon box, the oldest server in my site, decided enough was enough. It's the only server we have that doesn't have some kind of redundancy and isn't in a rack-mounted case. We wanted to get rid of it anyways, but we had a few email users and one web user (Mark Stanley's Freefall) holding on to that old box. We kept it around, in hopes they'd one day migrate to the newer, more robust servers; a migration that was always going to happen 'next month'. This wasn't the way we wanted to retire this box. Hrmf.
After multiple instances of >250day uptimes, an amazing feat for a 6 year old Windows NT 4.0SP1 box (that's running the oldest version of IIS that can run on NT, and a full Exchange 5.5 installation), this old Canon box is no more. Poof. It makes me a little sad. It also makes my pocketbook wince, as I know I'm going to need another NT-capable box due to my day-job. Tonight is the trip to Fry's to spend money (that I should be saving) on a replacement server, then a long evening rebuilding and restoring from tape. Until I do, Freefall and some of my email systems are down. I've been so busy at work I've not had a chance to fix much by remote, but I think I got 80% or so of the email services transitioned to a new server. For those of you who've bounced email off of me, I apologize.
4+ hours later, all comes back up. All is happy.
Well, except for monoceros.fbrtech.com. It didn't care if it was shutdown safely or not. The venerable old P250 Canon box, the oldest server in my site, decided enough was enough. It's the only server we have that doesn't have some kind of redundancy and isn't in a rack-mounted case. We wanted to get rid of it anyways, but we had a few email users and one web user (Mark Stanley's Freefall) holding on to that old box. We kept it around, in hopes they'd one day migrate to the newer, more robust servers; a migration that was always going to happen 'next month'. This wasn't the way we wanted to retire this box. Hrmf.
After multiple instances of >250day uptimes, an amazing feat for a 6 year old Windows NT 4.0SP1 box (that's running the oldest version of IIS that can run on NT, and a full Exchange 5.5 installation), this old Canon box is no more. Poof. It makes me a little sad. It also makes my pocketbook wince, as I know I'm going to need another NT-capable box due to my day-job. Tonight is the trip to Fry's to spend money (that I should be saving) on a replacement server, then a long evening rebuilding and restoring from tape. Until I do, Freefall and some of my email systems are down. I've been so busy at work I've not had a chance to fix much by remote, but I think I got 80% or so of the email services transitioned to a new server. For those of you who've bounced email off of me, I apologize.
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Date: 2002-11-08 03:20 pm (UTC)The auto down was just damn spiffy.
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Date: 2002-11-08 03:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-08 03:31 pm (UTC)