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Got into the office this morning, eventually, lots more queuing traffic than normal, to find that lots of things do not work.

Network has gone wrong in some way.

No email, and worst of all no internet.

Gradually things start to come back up, check that servers and systems are able to talk to each other, restart things, get others to restart things, more checking, more talking to people.

Finally it looks as though things are up when I notice a message queue filling up. A system message queue in the messaging software, not a queue it is possible to access, not a queue that should be filling up.

Google finds a Knowledge Base article explaining that if a problem goes wrong with a web service call then the service that handles these calls can get blocked. The resolution? Upgrade to a newer version of the software, known defect.

Brilliant, no mention of how to get things moving again.

Bounce the message broker over to the backup server, clears the blockage, things begin to move again, backup server runs out of memory and java dumps everywhere, losing the messages.

Bring primary broker back up, bring the backup back up.

Restart things that need to be restarted, talk to people who need to restart things.

Trawl through various logs and run some code to recreate the lost messages. There is a utility what we wrote to make this easy, unfortunately it is housed on a machine that had a hard disc failure last week and is awaiting recovery and rebuild.

Four hours later I think things are working as they should and I have a banging headache.
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