Yesterday’s Education
Posted on May 25, 2008
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I learned two important things yesterday:
- If a production rack server can support two power supplies then get two power supplies
- After installing an SSL Certificate, export it and save it
If you’re in the Denver area and happen to have a spare 700W power supply for the HP DL36x server series (part number 412211-001) holler! Want to sell, rent or loan it for a couple days? Or know where I can get one locally?
I lost a production web server yesterday due to the power supply dying. The warranty replacement won’t be here until Wednesday (omg) so I need to cobble up another web server quickly.
Shouldn’t be a big deal, I have backups and I’d expect it to take about 10 minutes to configure another box to step in.
However, I first have to get the SSL cert re-issued–on a holiday weekend. [update: Comodo just responded]. If I had just exported the cert from the original server after installing it I’d be done already. Importing is easy…
On Tuesday I’ll be revisiting all of my production servers and ordering additional power supplies for any that only have one. I’ll also export all the SSL certs and tuck them away safely. Just in case…
Lesson’s learned.
Tags: HP, operations, servers, SSL
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Darn, sorry to hear these all happen heading into your long weekend. Can’t you create a new CTR from the affected box and pluck it into your SSL cert provider (mine is GoDaddy) and just get the new cert downloads? I screwed up my cert moving servers and was able to get it online in 5 minutes (after 2 hours figuring it out)…
The old box is dead dead dead.
Can’t transfer from it. So, have to start over with a new cert request with the new server’s key.
And yeah, normally that’s pretty quick. Holiday weekend isn’t helping… the other wrinkle i should’ve mentioned is that the original cert doesn’t have me involved… so one re-issue was already sent to the old guy’s (disabled and dead) email account. Doh.
Sounds like a real headache! I have never gotten a second power supply for a rack - now I think i will!