The AI Data Center ITSM Field Guide

Digital Dojo 360 · ITSM Field Guide Bundle

The AI Data Center ITSM Field Guide

Four reference guides for the people who keep GPU clusters, cooling and power running when things go wrong. Built to be followed under pressure, not just read.

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What’s inside

GUIDE 1 · SOP-ITSM-MIM-001
Your First Major Outage: Play-by-PlayThe flagship. Minute-by-minute steps, scripts and ready-to-send messages for a manager facing a major incident with no runbook.
GUIDE 2 · SOP-ITSM-EVT-001
Event and Alert ManagementFrom noise to signal: detect, filter, classify, route and tune.
GUIDE 3 · SOP-ITSM-LCL-002
Liquid Cooling Leak ResponseDetect, isolate, protect, fix and return, with safety first.
GUIDE 4 · SOP-ITSM-CAP-003
Capacity ManagementKnow which ceiling you will hit first, and plan for it.

How to use this bundle

  1. These are reference guides, not fill-in templates. Read them once now, so you are not reading them for the first time during an outage.
  2. In the playbook, tick each step as you complete it, and copy the ready-made messages from the Send boxes.
  3. Swap in your own tools, distribution lists, role names and timings. Your policies come first.

Why I wrote this

I have spent 25 years in IT service management. I started on the help desk, worked my way up, and have led service desk teams for about 15 years. I also began as a data center tech and later led a team in a network operations center. When a major outage landed on me as the manager on the floor, I leaned on a written set of steps for the response and the communications. This bundle is that kind of guide, rebuilt for AI data centers.

GUIDE 1 · SOP-ITSM-MIM-001

Your First Major Outage: Play-by-Play

You just started. Something big is down. Nobody handed you a runbook. Work this page top to bottom, and tick the boxes as you go.

Before it happens: your first-week checklist

    The play-by-play

    Who is on the bridge

    Five rules for the Incident Commander

      GUIDES 2 TO 4 · QUICK REFERENCE

      Five steps each, one field rule each

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      Reference guidance only. Adapt roles, tools and timings to your own environment and policies. Follow your site’s electrical and safety rules at all times.
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