Mail Server Network Issue

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Yash

Bass
Dated: March 7, 2005

The mail server has just dropped off the network and the staff at the NOC are working to resolve it. It seems purely to be a network issue as the server itself is performing and running fine
 
An update.

All the LEDs are flashing and the server appears to have gone crazy.

We are taking out the HDDs and putting it in a standby server.
 
Little update here. The hard disks won't load up on the standby server. The Raid drivers wont just boot.

So we are reverting to our hot-standby mail server which we had implementely recently. We are just adding RAM to it right now so it can cope with the load.
 
Hot standby mail server went up 15 min ago if you didn't notice.

Here's the situation.. The standby mail server is updated every 24 hours. So as it stands, the mail server has data 12 hours old.

To sync the data to its latest, one of the NOC technicians has rushed to another facility to get some hardware and software to get the original mail server to run. Once the original mail server is running, data from the last 12 hours would be synced back to the standby mail server and it would become the primary mail server and the original would be our new standby

The synchronization would happen in about 90 minutes from now

Yes, I am equally disgusted on this entire situation. The reason we didnt bring up the standby mail server earlier was that we wanted to avoid this data sync situation and we believed we could have got the primary one up immediately.
 
We have put the CP online but new signups and change in mail settings will not be possible till this sync process is complete (about an hour from now).
 
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