[GRLUG] Rebooting linux server

[Christopher House]

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Collin Kidder <collink at kkmfg.com> wrote:

> I have a server running Debian 6.0.5. It likes to reboot at random. I get
> uptimes which range between about 8 hours and 8 days. There doesn't appear
> to be much rhyme or reason for this. The server is a ProLiant DL380 G3 and
> I do have redundant power supplies installed. I've tried looking at the
> logs but of course anything which happened too close to the time of the
> reboot seems to have not passed from cache to disk before the sudden reboot
> so all I see are normal log entries, a gap,  and then messages as processes
> start up upon reboot. I think there might be reason to suspect some sort of
> hardware failure but the machine doesn't seem to be indicating to me that
> anything failed.
>
> I'm not exactly a server administration wizard so what should I be looking
> for to try to figure this out?
>
>
Does it have an iLO? Is it configured and on the network? Have you logged
in to its webserver and checked the IML - Integrated Management Log, or the
iLO log? They usually indicate hardware errors.
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