* Get rid of any services running on the host.
* Optional, shut down the machine, then wait a month
* Zero disks
+
+ badblocks -v -s -p 5 -w -f DEVICE_GOES_HERE
+
* Revoke puppet certificate
+
+ * on handel: puppet node clean $HOST
+ * reinit samhain on handel
+
* Remove from LDAP
+ * including references such as subgroup: foo@hostname or supplementarygid: foo@hostname
+ * rerun puppet on backuphost / the backup host
+ * reinit samhain on backuphost
* Remove from Nagios
* Remove any references from puppet configuration
* Remove references to the host from DNS files, including reverse DNS
+ * Get rid of the HW (tell the hoster to get rid of it or other as appropriate)
+ * Update password file information for the $HOST
+ * Remove MQ queues related to machine (see [[doc/mq]] for details)
-Three months after decomissioning:
+ for queue in $(rabbitmqadmin -N rainier list queues name | \
+ grep unger.debian.org | \
+ awk '{print $2}') ; do
+ rabbitmqadmin -N rainier -V dsa delete queue name=$queue
+ done
+
+ * Remove disks from the MSA
+ * run multipath -ll on the KVM host and find all disks on that multipath
+```
+ finzi-srv (3600c0ff00027786c874edd5701000000) dm-52 HP,MSA 2040 SAN
+ size=75G features='2 queue_if_no_path retain_attached_hw_handler' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
+ |-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=50 status=active
+ | |- 1:0:2:4 sdeu 129:96 active ready running
+ | |- 1:0:3:4 sdhu 134:64 active ready running
+ | |- 2:0:0:4 sdaa 65:160 active ready running
+ | `- 2:0:2:4 sdfz 131:80 active ready running
+ `-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=10 status=enabled
+ |- 1:0:0:4 sdf 8:80 active ready running
+ |- 1:0:1:4 sdbu 68:128 active ready running
+ |- 2:0:1:4 sdcz 70:112 active ready running
+ `- 2:0:3:4 sdja 8:320 active ready running
+
+```
+ * for each disk in those multipath run
+
+ echo 1 > /sys/block/sdX/device/delete
+
+ * once done, remove that multpath-device from multipath
+
+ multipath -f finzi-srv
+
+ * remove the paths in the MSA
+
+Three months after decomissioning:
* Remove backups
- *