A clear advantage of leveraging a platform to manage your servers rather than you doing it manually is the ability to recover faster.
If you have hundreds or thousands of Windows bare metal server hosts that have been stricken by the BSOD, you’re facing a lot of work right now, and we don’t envy you or your teams.
While scripts now exist for ESXI to detach drives from the virtual machines, apply the fix and then re-attach to the VM, the same does not exist for bare metal.
This is what the MetalSoft platform was designed for. With MetalSoft-managed servers, you can simply build a CUSTOM ISO with the CrowdStrike recovery ISO and then use the metalcloud-cli to boot the custom ISO on each affected server. This can reduce the RTO of your infrastructure from weeks to minutes/hours and eliminate the chances of worker fatigue and, thus, human error.
ISO=`metalcloud-cli custom-iso create –label croudstrike-fix –url https://myrepo/CSSafeBoot.iso --return-id`
then boot the iso on the affected servers:
servers=”44 33 22 15…”
for srv in $servers; do metalcloud-cli custom-iso boot-on-server –id $ISO; done
That’s it.
This is a good example of why you should not handle your servers manually and why you should instead use an orchestration platform like MetalSoft, even if you have a relatively small number of servers under management.