@ewwhite That's a ball of wax... I like what I do, like most of the people, etc. But I've maxed out here. There's no growth potential in most senses of the phrase.
@JennyD no, the one who said SSL wasn't necessary for security. well I can't say no; I don't know what Karen did in comms room (but I think she got b&ed....) Anyway she trolled Root Access quite a bit, too.
We've had some issues with compromised accounts due to users falling victim to phishing campaigns.
The possibility of us doing a phishing campaign against our own users to proactively shame them has come up.
Putting aside my personal issues with this, I have some security-related problems:
If...
Just judging from the comments so far, it seems like people are totally ignoring the fact that the OP asked technical, answerable questions and are just going for the general rhetorical concept of whether or not it is socially wise to attempt to do that in the first place.
It's one of those things where there's so much water under the bridge that the bridge floods out. Might've been useful, but nope
i have 3 node cluster using conga interface . qdisk is working fine.service running is httpd. now when i shutdown a node on which service is running currently it gets fenced and rebooted but my services doesn't migrate to another available node in cluster .
following is my cluster.conf file
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@DennisKaarsemaker Fair point. But from my experience, there's a strong correlation between "good sysadmin" and "takes a lot of responsibility in their personal life"
@JennyD true, but there's a saying in dutch "De boog kan niet altijd gespannen staan". Roughly means that you can't work all the time and need downtime too :)
@DennisKaarsemaker That's very true - he's very good at letting me know when my stress affects him. But I can be in the board of the club, and thus have to be a volunteer at every local show we've got...
but mainly just being at the stable is relaxing.
My riding trainer told me that she appreciated that I'm changing jobs, because my riding has been a lot better since I handed in my notice here.
I have a question - Am I unusually mean? Like when a newb walks into my office and asks me a question and my answer is "`man <commandname>`, then come back to me if you're still confused." -- is that unusual for the sysadmin profession these days?
@MDMarra yes, I'm happy to 'seek influence' - that was the term I used when I screamed at someone so much they fell backwards down the stairs we were standing on and they fractured three vertebras - HR bought it (again) so all's well
@JennyD I think everyone who downvoted the question upvoted the comment. I'm really hoping he takes it to meta so I can clobber him about the head with "shows no research effort" from the downvote arrow tooltip
So, thanks to @pauska pointing out NT is no longer supported in any release after ESXi 5.1 U1 - my boss has asked me to create a plan to migrate away from NT.
sigh our developers thought it's a good idea to handle content compression inside the application instead of letting the webserver handle it. But they also screwed up the compression...
I need a method that may be able to accomplish what I am trying to do. This is a one time thing, any direction would be appreciated.
I need to archive a massive Windows share but I would like to be able to reference the structure on my back up based on year. Let me explain a little more in deta...
User: I need all my client's files from 2006, I can't figure out where they are on the file server Him: No problem, I have them archived by year. User: Yeah for IT!
Real life:
IT: Maintain your own archive/file structure...I'm not the Dewey Decimal System...if it's gone I'll get it back from backup if you can tell me the full path and when you lost it.
yeah, I agree with you...I don't get the "why" honestly. I would be telling the users "I recommend you create a folder structure based on year each year if you want to be able to quickly find things based on what year you did them"
@TheCleaner But if he has a sane structure his backups will give him the same thing. If the files are stored in say /share/client/xxxxxx then he can browse /share/client/xxxxxxx in the restore interface by date.
"as a young reporter with the city's prominent black newspaper, I was sent by my editor to do a "man on the street" interview type article. In Bridgeport. I went and stood on a corner, with nothing but white people as far as the eye can see, and everyone refused to talk to me. After a while, I glanced at the back of a bus stop bench and noticed that someone had scrawled in marker: "Bridgeport Ni&&er Beaters", followed by a phone number.
@voretaq7 I don't think that's what he wants. He doesn't want a "I lost a file on X month" and then IT browses the backups for that month (say 3 months ago), finds the file (say with a timestamp of 6/1/06) and restores it. He wants a user to say to him "Give me all files in this share for my customer files in 2006". He wants to archive those files into a 2006 folder before the backups so he can do this kind of restore...
Today I’ll be live blogging the May 2013 CentOS Dojo event held in Scottsdale Arizona. I can’t find a specific itenerary for what talks will be given when, but this isn’t a multiple track event, so we all get what they give, and it looks like some cool talks will be given. The event starts at 9:30AM Arizona time (currently the same time as Los Angeles). Refresh this page for u…
@voretaq7 more like /share/2006/clients/clientA = "give me all files in 2006 for client A" as opposed to IT saying "I've restored /share/clients/clientA, now go through 10 years of files/folders within that location and find what you need.
@MDMarra meaning, a dual-head setup with 20 regular 7200rpm spindles, 800GB of read-cache and STEC ZeusRAM low-latency write cache. 128GB of RAM. 75% will be first-level read-cache
So this will outperform the VNX 5300's and 5500's we have... but I think for $50k, it's a no-brainer to transition people to during the correction of the VNX issues.
@ewwhite actually I'd get odd looks putting in a PO request that low so I'd get it padded out with some other shit as finance would think I was buying it for home
@ewwhite so how does the failover/back work then? presumably both heads/controllers are just regular PCs? how's that 800GB split (400/400?) also what sort of memory is it, i.e. how many modules of what type and is there any ECC?
@Chopper3 both head units are active/active... they can fall back and go down as needed for maintenance. THey both see the same JBOD shelves. The 400GB STEC read-optimized SSDs are striped and live in the JBOD enclosure. So does the 8GB ram-based write-cache.
Boxes are either Supermicro or unbranded IBM (quanta computer) head units.
@ewwhite I know the violin guys have been nagging my boss to speak to me as soon as I go back, we have some DB challenges, could piss them off by speaking to nexenta first
@ewwhite presumably they'd happily do 15ks/ssd/cache instead?
@ewwhite as with any argument the trick is to win before it starts, usually by giving then no other option, options are your enemy not help. So tell them what the challenge is (budget/performance/size/expansion/resilience/support), then tell them that this is the only solution that will meet that challenge and you need their permission to move forward with the implementation, cross your arms and sit back, don't be drawn into conversation
More Powershell! I'm somewhat proud of this script. #Requires -Version 3 Function Get-ComputerInfo { <# .SYNOPSIS Gets some basic system information about one or more remote Windows computers. .DESCRIPTION Gets some basic system information about one or more remote Windows computers. Specifically designed to be able to fetch information from any version of Windows computer …
I have a new HP ProLiant DL360 G7 system that is exhibiting a difficult-to-reproduce issue. The server randomly hangs at the "Power and Thermal Calibration in Progress..." screen during the POST process. This typically follows a warm-boot/reboot from the installed operating system.
The system...
I love that flowchart. "Call HP Service Provider" is at the very bottom. What are the chances that every sysadmin will go through every step diligently before calling ;p
@allquixotic HP didn't know. I flew to NY just to troubleshoot this under the disapproving eyes of my coworkers... janky-ass HP equipment... should have stuck with Supermicro
but it caused a bit of a rift because the engineer there didn't try the obvious... move the server to a bench or desk and test away from the environment.
@Chopper3 It's a real question. It's just Too Localized. And it should also be VTC'ed "Too Obvious". You unplug stuff on one end and plug it in once you've moved.
- Take photos of the rear panels of the servers. - Label the cables. - In your new location, try to prep as much as possible. When we move data centers, we will prewire cabling and install rails at the new site.
the only problem I see with that Q is that a complete and proper answer with all the right considerations would require info on their particular setup.
@JoelESalas Yeah. If it was to make sure I was in and out at specific times I wouldn't have taken the job. This is so they know how many hours to bill customers for and keeps track of travel time so there's something in the system to expense my mileage/tolls/etc about
I'm against "big brother" time tracking. But I'm OK with it for billing/expense purposes, because that usually means theres a big chunk of money coming back in my next check
sharepoint server farm, sql server farm, custom claims authentication providers, host named site collection, mixed forms/windows authentication, SSL...
i have 3 node cluster using conga interface . qdisk is working fine.service running is httpd. now when i shutdown a node on which service is running currently it gets fenced and rebooted but my services doesn't migrate to another available node in cluster .
following is my cluster.conf file
...
I need a method that may be able to accomplish what I am trying to do. This is a one time thing, any direction would be appreciated.
I need to archive a massive Windows share but I would like to be able to reference the structure on my back up based on year. Let me explain a little more in deta...
I have a new HP ProLiant DL360 G7 system that is exhibiting a difficult-to-reproduce issue. The server randomly hangs at the "Power and Thermal Calibration in Progress..." screen during the POST process. This typically follows a warm-boot/reboot from the installed operating system.
The system...
