Title: 12 years of outages - summarised by Stuart Kendrick
Tags: english, nuug, standard
-Date: 2012-10-26 10:20
+Date: 2012-10-26 14:20
-<p>I work at the <ahref="http://www.uio.no/">University of Oslo</a>
+<p>I work at the <a href="http://www.uio.no/">University of Oslo</a>
looking after the computers, mostly on the unix side, but in general
all over the place. I am also a member (and currently leader) of
-<ahref="http://www.nuug.no/">the NUUG association</a>, which in turn
-make me a member of <ahref="http://www.usenix.org/">USENIX</a>. NUUG
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">the NUUG association</a>, which in turn
+make me a member of <a href="http://www.usenix.org/">USENIX</a>. NUUG
is an member organisation for us in Norway interested in free
software, open standards and unix like operating systems, and USENIX
-is a US based member organisation with similar targets. I tend to
-distill it down to the simple statement that all the skilled computer
-people are members of NUUG, which while a goal is still not quite
-reflected in reality. And thanks to these memberships, I get all
-issues of the great USENIX magazine
-<ahref="https://www.usenix.org/publications/login">;login:</a> in the
+is a US based member organisation with similar targets. And thanks to
+these memberships, I get all issues of the great USENIX magazine
+<a href="https://www.usenix.org/publications/login">;login:</a> in the
mail several times a year. The magazine is great, and I read most of
it every time.</p>
<p>In the last issue of the USENIX magazine ;login:, there is an
-article by <ahref="http://www.skendric.com/">Stuart Kendrick</a> from
+article by <a href="http://www.skendric.com/">Stuart Kendrick</a> from
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center titled
-<ahref="https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/october-2012-volume-37-number-5/what-takes-us-down">What
-Takes Us Down</a> (also
-<ahref="http://www.skendric.com/problem/incident-analysis/2012-06-30/What-Takes-Us-Down.pdf">available
+"<a href="https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/october-2012-volume-37-number-5/what-takes-us-down">What
+Takes Us Down</a>" (also
+<a href="http://www.skendric.com/problem/incident-analysis/2012-06-30/What-Takes-Us-Down.pdf">available
from his own site</a>), where he report what he found when he
processed the outage reports (both planned and unplanned) from the
last twelve years and classified them according to cause, time of day,
this work. Afterward, they will have gigabit
connectivity.
Technician: [xxx]
-<blockquote><pre>
+</pre></blockquote>
<p>He notes in his article that the date formats and other fields have
been a bit too free form to make it easy to automatically process them
<p>I find the idea of standardising outage messages seem to be such a
good idea that I would like to get it implemented here at the
university too. We do register
-<ahref="http://www.uio.no/tjenester/it/aktuelt/planlagte-tjenesteavbrudd/">planned
+<a href="http://www.uio.no/tjenester/it/aktuelt/planlagte-tjenesteavbrudd/">planned
changes and outages in a calendar</a>, and report the to a mailing
list, but we do not do so in a structured format and there is not a
report to the same location for unplanned outages. Perhaps something