decommisioning of HP-UX server

[gany59]

Hi,

what is meant by decommissiong of the server
i need to decommission the HP N class server , which was running in the 11.11
for valuable answers points assured ....

[Torsten.]

"what is meant by decommissiong of the server"

The final power off.

If you are concern about the data on disks consider to pull and destroy them.

[Pete Randall]

You really need to explain your requirements to yourself and then to us. It's one thing if you're a defense contractor with government contracts but it's entirely different if you're a Mom & Pop sort of business.


Pete

[Tingli]

You can make a tape backup for the system (such as vg00) and keep the tapes forever. Then clean up or erase everything in all the disks. Turn the power off.

[Jorge Pons]

Hi

see this thread:
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1252424492140+28353475&threadId=230531

Regards, Jorge

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

At a basic level, you should do an OS install, including all disks to insure any sensitive data is removed.

This would not stop a security agency like the NSA from reconstructing the data, but would stop the casual from viewing it.

I used to work at NDS, and we send disks to the disk crusher to be sure no sensitive data was released.

SEP

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Like Pete said, you really need to define your environment along with the sensitivity/confidentiality of the server's data repository.

Aside from the server itself, you may want/need to cleanup DNS entries on DNS servers; backup jobs on backup servers; etc.

You need to _think_ how your server was used and how it interpolated into _your_ environment

Regards!

...JRF...