Little Plastic Castle

 
    
16
Jul 2008
3:42 AM PDT
   

Wednesday 7/16/2008

10:10 - First chance to update this morning.

-- Mandrake server has issues.� Have to reset the VM because I can't get logged in.� After it's back up, Biker Babe says the app won't start:

could not connect to demeter on port 27135
couldn't bind port 20080, 20081

found /var 100% on demeter.

-- Team meeting - discussing the DMX disaster

-- the E drive on ntqua02 is full, talked to Thug about it and he's trying to get the right people on it.� (it's a windows box, and I don't do windows)

-- IWS perf test for today - delayed - they want me to check out and chart Thyme LM 215 but I haven't got time.� Too many fires so I bailed on this today.

- Staph Meating healthcare stuff pissed me off.� Made some phone calls but nobody gives a damn.� feck it.

- Sitescope is yelling about mountpoints for WICK systems.� PM to Tequila to check it out.� Tell him to df -h then mount -a and it'll probably fix it.� He said it didn't change when he did it, so it was already mounted.� Dunno.� Told him that a good PR move would be to call CarrotCake and ask if the servers are working properly because we're seeing an error in monitoring.� She'll love that kind of attention.� He took my advice.�

(always heed suck-up advice boys and girls, customers both internal and external like to know that their highly paid engineers are paying attention to their needs.� It's good for the career.) ((and I can bet Tequila didn't open the conversation with "Coraline said there might be an issue with your servers..."� But I don't mind.))

3:30 - Went through DEV and straightend out the final LDAP issues.� Changed the DN's and put the sudoers file into place.� With the root password changed, users are accessing the systems via admin accounts.�

Got the OK to do SWT on Friday.� Hoppy is out in a training class but he'll VPN in tomorrow and stage the ED systems.� After 5pm on Friday (Dark Weekend anyway), I'm bouncing the SWT env and verifying connectivity.

- Working on setting up marriott and hilton

- Pooh Bear couldn't get into phys Delphi but I got the IP from Mr. T. and gave him a new password.� He can't find apps, but I think it's at hda13 which wasn't mounted.� The /u partitions are most likely mounted wrong, so I need him to look at what we have and just tell me which goes where so I can fix it for him.

- Mandrake has been fucko all day and reset multiple times.� I finally got some time to look at it and found webseal had run away and was bleeding the system to death.�

ps -ef|grep webseald|awk '{print $2}' |xargs kill -9

-- By the way, Becky is back to work.� She's doing w@h for this week but will have a presence in the office next.� Mr. T. never did give me her address so I'll have to make a trip in next week to give it to her personally.� Also want to get something for Chez, who got back from Vacation today.� (I'll probably give her a new laser pointer so she can play with Smalls.)

3:50 - Mr. T. took the DMX migration off of Slick's plate and mine.� PD2 and ESX Remediation are top priorities.� Margie is on her own, and if it breaks in half THEN it's ALL HANDS ON DECK.� I probably owe some thanks to Skipper.

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    About Me: Little Plastic Castle is an extension of This Child's Life which is not hosted at inboxjournal. This blog will make little sense to anyone other than myself. It's a stream of consciousness log of what I do on a daily basis in my job as a UNIX computer systems engineer. o/~ "They say goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine...so the little plastic castle is a surprise every time, and its hard to say if they're happy, but they don't seem much to mind." o/~ I endeavor to respect confidentiality and thus I use nicknames for the people I work with. (Mr. T, Ratface, Jerry, Cartman, Grandpa Simpson, Slick, and so on.) I drop system names in here and abbreviations, but any note that requires something like a FQDN will always be marked private. You can comment if you like, but I'll only respond if I feel like it.

    Interests: Cast of Characters: Just a few of the names I use for people, this is the nickname and what their job responsibility is. Mr. T - My Direct Manager (Engineering) Slick - ESX Specialist Cartman - Network Engineering Lead Grandpa Simpson - Network Engineer Becky - WebSphere Engineer Ratface - Developer/Architect Jerry - Project Manager (BTI) Matt T. - Project Manager (Blackbird) The Martian - Application Developer AVP Ice Queen - Engineering AVP Chez - Assistant to Ice Queen Watts - Engineering/Development Sr. Mgr. Hoppy - I.T. Security LDAP Squirrelface - I.T. Security Accts Woodchuck - I.T. Security Accts Russian Bride - Application Tester Trisha - Testing AVP Tequila - UNIX Admin OPS Chops - UNIX Admin OPS Mac - UNIX Engineer (Contractor, works with Tequila & Chops) Margie - SAN specialist (ch)InkPen - Backup Specialist Chimpy - OPS Mgr Duke - UNIX Lead even though he knows nothing about UNIX