On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
centos@911networks.com wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 21:18:17 +0200 Equinox86 equinox86@gmail.com wrote:
mmm why you not reboot?
Because to reboot, I will need the authorization of 3 different people. Don't ask, they are having major "political" fights between 2 divisions.
You really need to arrange a scheduled maintenance window and a procedure to announce when emergency maintenance will happen. Pretending things never break or need maintenance operations is just unrealistic - but if the authorization you need is part of a working scheduling process it is not necessarily a bad thing.
Les is correct. You need to be able to take the server offline and check the hard drive and/or replace it. Hardware does break and you should have spares available, on site, ready to use. Or, a backup server.