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In the early morning of April 23, 2015, Whittemore lost power and brought down VTLUUG infrastructure. Issues bringing hardware back up were compounded by:
* Maintenance deferred for far too long, which prevented some machines from booting on their own.
* Failure to notice the clocks on VMs were wrong due to a dead CMOS battery on wood, which prevented Kerberos from working properly.
* Lack of a dedicated sysadmin with the time and experience necessary to correct these problems.
* Lack of a disaster recovery plan.
Some steps that should be taken to reduce the length and impact of future outages include:
* Rebuild VMs like milton, which have had too much maintenance deferred, and move them to cyberdelia.
* Install NTP on all servers.
* Find a dedicated sysadmin.
* Create a disaster recovery plan.
* Maintenance deferred for far too long, which prevented some machines from booting on their own.
* Failure to notice the clocks on VMs were wrong due to a dead CMOS battery on wood, which prevented Kerberos from working properly.
* Lack of a dedicated sysadmin with the time and experience necessary to correct these problems.
* Lack of a disaster recovery plan.
Some steps that should be taken to reduce the length and impact of future outages include:
* Rebuild VMs like milton, which have had too much maintenance deferred, and move them to cyberdelia.
* Install NTP on all servers.
* Find a dedicated sysadmin.
* Create a disaster recovery plan.
