Decommission Servers
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When a Virtual Server or Physical Server is no longer needed for a Project or an Application, it needs to be decommissioned to free up resources.
Contents
- 1 Apparently there is a 2 week "Cooling Off Process"
- 2 Software needs to be Uninstalled
- 3 Monitoring needs to be stopped (Can be Automated)
- 4 Agents need to be Uninstalled (Can be Automated)
- 5 Server needs to be powered down (Can be Automated)
- 6 Virtual Resources need to be returned to the pools
- 7 Physical Servers need to be removed from the Racks.
- 8 CMDB needs to be updated.
Apparently there is a 2 week "Cooling Off Process"
During this phase, the computer is powered off but is otherwise intact.
Software needs to be Uninstalled
- BigFix Client
- Create Batch File to Uninstall the Client then Remove the computer from the database
curl -X DELETE --user username:password https://vwp-bigfix01.dhe.duke.edu:52311/api/computer/<id>
CURL DELETE 7149733
- Microsoft SCOM Monitoring needs to be stopped
