Re:Facebook-owned sites were down
by kukx on Monday October 04, 2021 @02:39PM
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It is a matter of preparation. You can make sure there are KVMoIPs or other OOB technologies available on site to allow direct access from a remote location. In the worst case technician has to know how to connect the OOB device or press a power button ;)
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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down
by treesknees on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:06PM
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I'm not disagreeing with you, however clearly (if the reddit posts were legitimate) some portion of their OOB/DR procedure depended on a system that's down. From old coworkers who are at FB, their internal DNS and logins are down. It's possible that the username/password/IP of an OOB KVM device is stored in some database that they can't login to. And the fact FB has been down for nearly 4 hours now suggests it's not as simple as plugging in a KVM.