Sysadmin

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When you touch that server you touch me

They turned off the HPSIM and general management and alerting server this morning, or at least, unplugged it, cause it was causing this huge network spike at a remote site I know for a fact that no one besides myself knows what it is exactly that machine does, as its only usefull to me and what I do. That doesnt mean it isnt explained in the server list in Sharepoint that I made and painstakingly try to keep up to date, that no one bothers to ever look at. And of course no one bothered to ask during...
Print | posted on Posted On Friday, July 25, 2008 10:56 PM | Feedback (2)

Meanwhile, back at the old location

A tour of the current state of the office, and one of the server rooms, where most racks are now empty or near-empty. An Epic moment. Gert-Jan uninstalls Citrix on the last 2 servers in the farm, effectively ending 6 years of the 2000-user, 60-server Metaframe XP Citrix farm that served our Netherlands users. I would have had Marcel do this, but he has gone on holiday. Various IBM servers and almost all the blades lie ready to be moved to the new location. We don't have a use for any of these currently,...
Print | posted on Posted On Friday, July 04, 2008 9:15 PM | Feedback (0)

T-Minus 1 day to Big Bang serverroom move

Spent today going over some cabling details mostly. Its strange how stressed we all became over these little details, while we will have larger issues to worry about on the day. (high res) During the move, we will be moving the Voip servers, RF-Controllers (used by various sites to do handheld-scanning), an Authentication server, the Wyse-Terminal (thin client) management server, and 1 PDC. We are also moving 2 very criticle FTP/EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) servers, that handle lots of customer-related...
Print | posted on Posted On Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:12 PM | Feedback (3)

Videos of serverrooms and progress report

So I havent posted about our Datacenter move in a while. Well we are starting to pick up the pace now, all the new servers at the new location have been set up, and various other teams are now installing their stuff on there. We are now getting into decomissioning more and more servers from the old server rooms. Here are two videos of rooms as they were 2 weeks ago. Old Datacenter 1 from Robert Kloosterhuis on Vimeo.(I focus on one of the comm pc’s for a while, as the mouse was moving just a minute...
Print | posted on Posted On Saturday, May 24, 2008 1:11 AM | Feedback (1)

Friendfeed Sysadmin Room, Twhirl FF support, and Pretend-Sysadmins

So not long after I complained that there where so few System Administerors on the social media scene, Friendfeed introduces “Rooms” and immediately Adnan takes the initiative and makes a Sysadmin Room. The uptake was pretty damn fast, probably partly due to Adnans blog being part of the Planetsysadmin collective. (why am I not on there yet?! ) So, lets hope admins posts “adminy” and interesting there. Adnan and me are off to a good start, at least. Meanwhile, I realised I now had a treasure trove...
Print | posted on Posted On Friday, May 23, 2008 10:54 PM | Feedback (0)

Books on Systems Administration and Datacenters

Ars Techninca recently opened a new forum called “The Server Room” The first thread I started there was about sysadmin and datacenter books, and I already have some real jewels that I will be ordering soon, I suspect. From Cisco Press: http://www.amazon.com/Cente... ( http://www.ciscopress.com/b... ) and this one was recommended to me too: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASI... ( http://everythingsysadmin.com/...
Print | posted on Posted On Thursday, April 17, 2008 3:52 PM | Feedback (1)

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