Server Decommission

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Grant edited this page Jan 9, 2023 · 2 revisions

Outline process for decommission of retired servers.

Wipe disks. eg: dd in server recovery mode. Alternative is PXE boot shredos. Remember hotspares.
Remove Chef config
Remove from DHCP in Chef
Remove DNS from dnscontrol (forward and PTR)
Remove from Wiki Rack documentation
Remove from PDU config
De-rack
Recover any desired spares
Dispose