Re: Prepping server for decommission

[Chris Whisonant <Chris.Whisonant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Personally, we've always started to D mode and used the option to install 
LIC and initialize the system. You can also use the option to format the 
disk units from DST after this.

Also, in theory if you then take out some hard drives and put them in 
different slots this should really foul up the RAID configuration, right 
(assuming that you are using RAID)? So even if something was retained the 
next person would have to get all the drives in the right slots to access 
it (since it's striped across multiple drives).

Chris Whisonant
Comporium
Senior Mid-Range Systems Administrator
IBM eServer Certified Systems Expert - iSeries Technical Solutions V5R2
IBM Certified System Administrator - Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5
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domino400-bounces+chris.whisonant=comporium.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 
01/20/2006 09:05:16 AM:

> As you probably are aware, we migrated to a new box recently.  The guy 
> here that handles all the paperwork got a letter from IBM stating that 
> they take no responsibility for data left on the drive when a server is 
> decommissioned and returned to them (we have it through a lease 
program). 
> My question for the list is:  What's the correct way to remove that data 

> so that it's not available for the next guy to run some utility and 
> recover it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Patrick
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