Primo MT EU02 - RCA - September 25 , 2024
Introduction
This document serves as a Root Cause Analysis for the Primo service interruption experienced by Ex Libris customers on July 16, 2024
The goal of this document is to share our findings regarding the event, specify the root cause analysis, outline actions to be taken to solve the downtime event, as well as preventive measures Ex Libris is taking to avoid similar cases in future.
Event Timeline
Intermediate service interruptions were experienced by Ex Libris customers served by the Primo MT EU02 instance at our European Data Center during the following time period:
September 25, 2024, from 06:30 until 07:11 AM Amsterdam time.
During the event, Service was unavailable for the environment.
Root Cause Analysis
Ex Libris Engineers investigated this event to determine the root cause analysis with the following results:
A Compute hardware failure caused the Database server to crash.
Once the alert came in, our engineers worked to bring the Database server back up on a different host.
Once the migration completed the system fully recovered.
Technical Action Items and Preventive Measures
Ex Libris has taken the following action and preventive measures to avoid such an occurrence in future:
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Our engineers migrated the guest to another host, which will assure stability of the service.
Customer Communication
ExLibris is committed to providing customers with prompt and ongoing updates during Cloud events. Ongoing and prompt updates on service interruptions appear in the system status portal at this address: http://status.exlibrisgroup.com/
These updates are automatically sent as emails to registered customers.

