On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 7:13 AM, Jamon Camisso via talk <talk@gtalug.org> 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