On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 7:13 AM, Jamon Camisso via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/06/18 15:47, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: >> So I am trying to determine what may have caused the system to do a >> reboot, whilst I have my suspicions I want to figure out exactly what >> is happening to cause this kind of behavior. AIUI servers should be >> able to run happily for years without issues (barring hardware >> problems) so I want that kind of reliability. Where in /var/log will I >> be finding the most clues as to the events that lead up to this >> 'reboot'? > > Most servers from the big vendors will have an out of band (aka lights > out) management interface. Tools like freeIPMI let you control the > physical host - like remote serial console, chassis power control etc. > > Does yours have this feature? Usually hardware issues show up in a log > there - things like power supply issues, CPU overheat conditions etc. > > If you don't have one, I highly recommend looking into whether your > server supports an add-on out of band management card >
I think it does support such but I'm not sure I want to pay for another add-on at this point. The actual main issue isn't this part of things. Thanks for the ideas though! Dee --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
