On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > centos at 911networks.com wrote: >> On Sat, 16 May 2009 21:18:17 +0200 >> Equinox86 <equinox86 at 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.