It’s Friday afternoon, about 2pm. I have a console/management server that is having some difficulties with Splunk 4. Whether or not the RHEL version (4.8) is the cause– I have finally decided it’s time to upgrade to RHEL current (5.4). That way I can at least eliminate the OS as the cause of the issues…
(Reference, yesterday’s blog about moving servers from one row of racks to another): OK, so I had several servers to move to a new rack in another row. As of this morning, they were ALL done, except one. The person who we wrote the application for on that server (the “owner”), had not responded to…
I don’t know about how it works in YOUR organization, but where I work, as the Unix Systems Admin (job title, “IS Project Manager”, go figure) – I do everything to manage the server from birth to death. Ordering, receiving, unpacking, installation, management, performance, uptime, retirement. And all the bits in-between. Today I was moving…
OK, a few minutes ago, I had written a really lengthy blog entry about LISA. It was awesome. And then– I got interrupted by someone needing help, and well, an incorrect click basically wiped out my posting- before I had submitted it. (Did I mention my personal hard drive at home blew up last week?…
Each LISA brings a new challenge or two…or four…so far. The conference network started out barely usable, then went offline entirely twice, then came back up with sporadic outages before finally performing acceptably. I feel like I owe an explanation, so here goes.
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The other day I received my shiny new copy of Windows 7 Enterprise. Now, while new OS’s don’t necessarily drive me, I needed to spend some time on this to test an X-Windows product we use a lot– ahead of time– for the users’ sake. (X-Win32). (Yes, I know, typical users and lots of x-windows…..
We have a very specific short-term need: deploy a system into a room without network access so that a building automation system can be installed and the host machine can be accessed remotely. Givens: * A network will be installed into this room, but not soon enough for the need for building automation system hardware….
As our technology grows, along with pieces-parts from multiple vendors, so does our job as the technical equivalent of Dr. House. In many ways, what we do as sysadmins is very very similar to that popular TV show (which, by the way, is one of my favorites – his crankiness is something I intend to…
OK, so today I totally ignored my own methods of doing stuff. Specifically, as a sysadmin, I not only have to update systems all the time (that is, software, packages, updates, patches, etc) – but I also have to keep on top of firmware updates. I suspect many or most of you do the same….
Some of you have been doing LDAP for a long time. And, some of you (like me) may be relatively new to the game. (Can I help it if I like NIS? – it’s simple, and it WORKS). But- various regulatory issues and security flaws require that we all move to something better, which is…