Is it the weekend yet?
Dec. 7th, 2006 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisThe day was long but productive.
On Wednesday afternoon, I was assigned to a committee which is cleaning up 16,000 potential Sarb-Ox issues on our production servers. These are all very trivial items: we took care of the major ones a long, long time ago. Still, upper management wants an utterly sanitized comprehensive report so even these little items --mostly archival or legacy files whose ownership varies from that of their parent directory-- addressed. My role is to clean up all of these items for my particular server group, about 4,000 entries. My implementation plan must be complete by 12/14/06. Yay.
One of the huge server groups and UNIX business divisions is being dissolved; my group is inheriting two groups of Sun Microsystems V480 servers, one of 20 and one of 16. I've been assigned to the transition of the group of 16. Now I need to get space, power and network connections for the lot, as well as Veritas licenses. I hope to get the worst of this planning done within a week; the business users haven't given us a deadline for completion. My group of servers will replace retiring E450 models; while I have a fondness for the E450 model, they are large (half a cabinet), heavy (205 lbs) and not particularly powerful by modern standards (4 CPUs, 400 MHz each, 4 GB of RAM). The newer machines we're inheriting will be vastly better and more compact.
My documentation project continues apace; I finished off two new standards docs, obtained signatures for many others and am rather delighted with the progress of our tech writers. The NIS+ servers are all decommissioned and will be removed from the data center in the next couple of weeks. The Raptor firewalls are about to be decommissioned and the hardware removed by the end of the month. Seven new Sarb-Ox evidence requests arrived this week: all have been dispatched appropriately. Numerous tickets required approval from our team: I've tackled all assigned to me. Several work tickets were assigned to me for completion; all have been performed successfully. Multiple meetings came and went each day this week and I've survived them all, more or less.
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cuyahogarvr has arrived Thursday night to spend several days chez nous. The day ends on a high note. :-)
On Wednesday afternoon, I was assigned to a committee which is cleaning up 16,000 potential Sarb-Ox issues on our production servers. These are all very trivial items: we took care of the major ones a long, long time ago. Still, upper management wants an utterly sanitized comprehensive report so even these little items --mostly archival or legacy files whose ownership varies from that of their parent directory-- addressed. My role is to clean up all of these items for my particular server group, about 4,000 entries. My implementation plan must be complete by 12/14/06. Yay.
One of the huge server groups and UNIX business divisions is being dissolved; my group is inheriting two groups of Sun Microsystems V480 servers, one of 20 and one of 16. I've been assigned to the transition of the group of 16. Now I need to get space, power and network connections for the lot, as well as Veritas licenses. I hope to get the worst of this planning done within a week; the business users haven't given us a deadline for completion. My group of servers will replace retiring E450 models; while I have a fondness for the E450 model, they are large (half a cabinet), heavy (205 lbs) and not particularly powerful by modern standards (4 CPUs, 400 MHz each, 4 GB of RAM). The newer machines we're inheriting will be vastly better and more compact.
My documentation project continues apace; I finished off two new standards docs, obtained signatures for many others and am rather delighted with the progress of our tech writers. The NIS+ servers are all decommissioned and will be removed from the data center in the next couple of weeks. The Raptor firewalls are about to be decommissioned and the hardware removed by the end of the month. Seven new Sarb-Ox evidence requests arrived this week: all have been dispatched appropriately. Numerous tickets required approval from our team: I've tackled all assigned to me. Several work tickets were assigned to me for completion; all have been performed successfully. Multiple meetings came and went each day this week and I've survived them all, more or less.
And
cuyahogarvr has arrived Thursday night to spend several days chez nous. The day ends on a high note. :-)
