What Are You Doing Right Now
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Had a server that's being replaced loose 3 of the 4 drives in its array last night. Happy Friday to me, not that it's ever a good day for that to happen! Not a surprise since it's a 7 year old server, and the 3 drives that failed are all original.
This just gets better and better. Former employee recorded the wrong encryption key. So now we're restoring a backup from March so we can pull the key and restore to current.
on the bright side, at least you know you can get 7 years out of those drives ...
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Had a server that's being replaced loose 3 of the 4 drives in its array last night. Happy Friday to me, not that it's ever a good day for that to happen! Not a surprise since it's a 7 year old server, and the 3 drives that failed are all original.
This just gets better and better. Former employee recorded the wrong encryption key. So now we're restoring a backup from March so we can pull the key and restore to current.
on the bright side, at least you know you can get 7 years out of those drives ...
The client has dragged their feet for 2+ years that my boss has been telling them this could happen at any time. Even had it in their budget, just kept pushing it back.
At least we were able to get everything recovered over the weekend, no yelling and nashing of teeth this morning.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
listening to too much Captain Beefheart I think ...
Personally, I don't think that is possible.
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Getting through the work day so I can get back to RHCE prep this evening
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Writing some simple powershell scripts as the human factor has been to unreliable to do the job correctly.
Time to replace the human with automation.
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Writing some simple powershell scripts as the human factor has been to unreliable to do the job correctly.
Time to replace the human with automation.
"Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script!"
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Writing some simple powershell scripts as the human factor has been to unreliable to do the job correctly.
Time to replace the human with automation.
"Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script!"
uh what? or?
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Writing some simple powershell scripts as the human factor has been to unreliable to do the job correctly.
Time to replace the human with automation.
"Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script!"
Exactly, I mean what I've written is 2 lines, including an import-module function and the operation. This portion has been scheduled.
I wrote two additional scripts to make sure the human still doesn't screw it up, one to check on the above status, and the other to undo the above status.
All in maybe 3 hours, mostly for discovery.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Writing some simple powershell scripts as the human factor has been to unreliable to do the job correctly.
Time to replace the human with automation.
"Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script!"
uh what? or?
That's from an old Dilbert comic strip.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Writing some simple powershell scripts as the human factor has been to unreliable to do the job correctly.
Time to replace the human with automation.
"Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script!"
uh what? or?
That's from an old Dilbert comic strip.
I remember this one too, laughed inside as my heart about jumped out of my chest
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Writing some simple powershell scripts as the human factor has been to unreliable to do the job correctly.
Time to replace the human with automation.
"Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script!"
uh what? or?
That's from an old Dilbert comic strip.
was that Alice to Wally?
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out of lockdown once more...
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Finishing the nights gaming session - getting set up for another day in the office. Watching the
netdatadashboard and wondering what else I can do with this Ubuntu Server.. piHole is next,.. UBNT controller is already on it.Meh - problem for another day.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
out of lockdown once more...
They seem to be making a comeback here, slowly.
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Getting close to back to school - Struggling finding a afternoon daycare that isn't too expensive which is next to impossible - the life of a split custody agreement.
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Trying to adapt to the eco-system is difficult sometimes when you know there is a better way.
- Disabled Powershell
- ManageEngine w/ DesktopCentral
- Poor (vendor) management of Printers
sigh I'm glad to be here,...I'm glad to be here.... I can make a difference -....
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to adapt to the eco-system is difficult sometimes when you know there is a better way.
- Disabled Powershell
- ManageEngine w/ DesktopCentral
- Poor (vendor) management of Printers
sigh I'm glad to be here,...I'm glad to be here.... I can make a difference -....
I'm assuming these are the headwinds you're encountering at the moment.
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to adapt to the eco-system is difficult sometimes when you know there is a better way.
- Disabled Powershell
- ManageEngine w/ DesktopCentral
- Poor (vendor) management of Printers
sigh I'm glad to be here,...I'm glad to be here.... I can make a difference -....
I'm assuming these are the headwinds you're encountering at the moment.
Yes - There is generally some headwind as you learn the requirements and limitations in a new environment. Even if some of those practices seem - misguided.
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RHCE practice time going over handling errors. Alas, this evening saw me drawing a blank on some syntax.
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