On 09/01/2012 04:43 PM, Mike Burns wrote:
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Hi:
I didn't really participate in this outage, so I thought others could help us draft up notes about it. I put some barebones below.
One outcome we need to look at is, what do people do when they perceive services are out?
Of course, if the service is the wiki, they can't check that for what to do ...
How do we communicate when major communication services of ovirt.org are down? IRC is great but not enough ... If we can arrange for a reliable third-party mail relay to alias a page to the Infra team, great, but how do we keep it from getting spam?
Another angle to resolve is service monitoring so we know when things go out rather than waiting for service users to tell us. I got some direct emails from people (since the infra@ list wasn't working), but I was unavailable and unaware of the problem until Robert called me when he was working on fixing it. I don't mind getting pager alerts, as long as we can tune things so they are not crazy often. :)
I think we should have multiple places that we notify.
1. IRC 2. wiki page 3. infra list 4. someplace on wordpress (preferably the main page).
This should be sufficient long term (i.e. once we have a better hosting solution than just the kitchen sink box.
I agree with getting service monitoring set up as well. We can even accomplish this to a certain extent with jenkins (and a separate non-jenkins cron job to monitor jenkins).
Mike Monitor requires hardware unless someone is able to add it to there existing system. I use a very basic monitor inside my Cerberus Email Response / Help desk system. We can also add something to do basic jobs inside Jenkins. I have a 5 Seat license for Cerberus that would allow us to have a ticketing / monitoring system it is written in php and
I agree that is a good list. We need to make sure that we have each other cell phone info in the event we need to get a hold of someone although that might be hard for the people in diff county's al pretty easy to customize. I am heavenly involved in the project and I am already running Cerberus on my own VPS.
== What occurred ==
Even the doubled disk space on linode01.ovirt.ort (to 25 GB) wasn't enough to last long. I made a mistake and the ripper script wasn't purging old ovirt-node.iso using up a lot of space.
== When ==
XXXX?
date -d "2012-08-30 XXXX UTC"
== Affected services ==
lists.ovirt.org wiki.ovirt.org ovirt.org/.* ovirtbot Gerritt backup Jenkins backup [[What else?]]
== Responses to take ==
* Get new hosting solution in place. * Double current disk space before new hosting move, to give us room to breath. * Work up a response place that is posted in the IRC topic or somewhere good so people know how to contact all of the Infra team when something is happening. * New service need: monitoring server Fix the reaper script to properly purge the nightly files.
Thanks Robert
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