CAcert System Admins discussion list

[Mendel Mobach <extern AT leercoden.nl>]

On May 23, 2009, at 7:48 PM, Bas van den Dikkenberg wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We at Hobbynet had the same problem yesterday, almost all of our  
> server
> when't into thermal shutdown. But after the cooling was restored  
> they didn't
> turn them selfs back on.
>
> Today I made an adjustment in the bios, and now is the cooling is  
> restored
> the server it wil turn itself backup on.
>
> Don't know if the Cacert hardware has this feature, maybe this needs  
> to be
> checkt out.

For cacert it doesn't help that much. we have to type (manually)
a encrypted disk password and maybe some others. This means that  
manual labor
is always involved.

What I did was:

* power up the servers (actually sun2, sun1 didn't want
  to be nice to me at first, but it behaved when philipp
  asked it some nice questions)
* start the vservers
* check some services
* get some food
* test some services

but:

since there is no list of all the services involved and
it's decided that some vservers are not critical and maintained
by other people (who don't have the time?) I did not
have sufficient documentation to start all the services.

Futuremore: I did decide not to start the server immediately again
after the cooling problem looked to be restored which proved to be
a good thing afterwards. This caused a 'great' delay in service
downtime because at around 16:00 I started starting servers and
checking things again.

At least: nothing broke physically (yet).

Kind regards,

Mendel Mobach