Little Plastic Castle

Aug 2008
5:17 AM PDT

Friday 8/22/2008

Friday Slick & I cut over the DMX from 2 to 3 on nonprod portal.� We had an issue with Mage kernel panicking on reboot so after much troubleshooting and consideration we decided to do an in-place upgrade from ESX 2.5 to 3.02 and migrate it over to Madison and off of Fairbanks.

This worked pretty well.� We had a couple of outstanding things to do:

- Full Patch load

- New Kernel Load

- Set clock=pit in kernel and shutdown ntpd

migrate DMX

- ntpdate (lockdown time)

- recompile vmware tools & restart networking

- remove gcc & kernel-source

- remount nfs & smb shares

- visudo (add satellite acct)

- chgrp & chmod /bin/su

- ntpdate one more time

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Username: coraline

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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