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June 21, 2007

22. Juni 2007 -- Freitag

TODO

  • LDAP: deal with update errors from Dienstag and Donnerstag
  • Backup: Firewalls and XLS delivery
  • Xi-Text: Figure out HP LJ 3600n problem
  • Xi-Text: Figure out HP DJ 6127 printing

21. Juni 2007 -- Donnerstag

Admin

  • Backup:
    • SATABeast disks installed, powered up, connected to storage node
    • Finished loading OS on new storage nodes
    • Loaded new enablement codes into NetWorker
  • Phone: lots of backlog dealt with
  • Team Meeting

June 20, 2007

20. Juni 2007 -- Mittwoch

Admin

  • Backup:
    • Change schedules to delay one week fulls that happen this weekend
    • Email sent to EMC Licensing about the LAC and how it isn't working
    • Download Solaris packages and patches for the new FC card to be installed on Monday
    • Printout and fill out Vendor Parking Permit apps for next week
    • Rack new equipment
    • Schedule DataDomain service for 7:30am June 25

June 19, 2007

19. Juni 2007 -- Dienstag

Admin

  • Xi-Text:
    • Suggestions for dealing with hp dj 6127 printer
    • HP DJ 6127 printer still not working
    • Attempt to define another printer, but it appears to be powered off
  • Backup:
    • Check that save groups actually worked as required... they did!
    • Take delivery of new storage nodes
    • Take delivery of new storage array
    • Shipping Company picks up Data Domain chassis
    • SOW meeting
  • Update samba config for new users and moving users

June 18, 2007

18. Juni 2007 -- Montag

Admin

  • Xi-Text support -- two printers having issues... working with vendor
  • LDAP: clean up errors from while I was out
  • Backup: continues to be problematic. Scheduled full-save's did not start as scheduled over the weekend, they had to be manually started when I discovered the problem Saturday afternoon.

June 12, 2007

12. Juni 2007 -- Dienstag

Admin

  • Backup:
    • Update EMC on status of open issues
    • 18976574: EMC calls back. I ignored his advice because I just didn't feel he was comprehending what I was saying and found that contrary to what I was told, by changing the old client definition to specify the filesystems instead of All and put both definitions into the same save group, only one bootstrap was created. Issue closed.
    • 18972720: EMC emails -- this is a bug, working to confirm the bug
  • DNS: vpn address change (late!)

June 11, 2007

11. Juni 2007 -- Montag

Admin

  • Backup:
    • Sessions that have long ago completed are still listed in the Monitoring->Sessions tab of NMC... related to 19014920?
    • Groups still cloning and 100% done but no movement...
    • Give up on EMC ever calling back about 19014920 and open 19036762 because I see that it is aborting inactive jobs and then is waiting for them to complete!
    • EMC called back and had me abort (stop and then kill -9) the two save groups that were hung. Hopefully, they will work tonight.

June 10, 2007

10. Juni 2007 -- Sonntag

Admin

  • Backup:
    • Couple "clones" that are just not moving forward.
    • Three INCR's that don't clone that are 100% done but not moving forward
    • Email from EMC indicates the parallelism of the nsrserverhost is used for indexes in 7.3.2 (news to me!)... increase parallelism from 1 to 50 for nsrserverhost
    • nsrwatch... hmmm have to look that one up
    • No resolution
    • 19:45-21:45: on-site tape pool ran out of empty tapes, add 20 more

June 9, 2007

9. Juni 2007 -- Samstag

Admin

  • Backup:
    • It's broke! NMC won't connect, gstd is running, clients cannot start saves
    • Open 19014920 ... Severity 1 (1 hour call back that takes 1 hour 15 minutes)
    • Kill -9 all the savegrp's, nsrd, and several nsrmmd's (Ugh!)
    • reboot ozzie.... it hangs.... NFS problem because of ipf being misconfigured to not allow traffic out the private ethernet interface. EMC thinks this is the problem -- it's not.
    • two "nsrim -X's" , nsrjb -HEv, nsrjb -Iv .. and we're back in business.... maybe
    • (that's 4.5 hours of work)
    • Check later... seems to be running.... at least NMC is responding and things look ok

June 8, 2007

8. Juni 2007 -- Freitag

Admin

  • LDAP:
    • lots of privacy flags
    • Deal with issues from nightly update
  • Backup: Meeting about space
  • FootPrints: Test server set up and announced
  • Xi-Text: Add a printer for cnhs

June 7, 2007

7. Juni 2007 -- Donnerstag

Admin

  • Backup:
    • gstd crashing... 18988282
      • dbsrv9 process left hanging
      • Caused by Media->Save Set search for particular client for manual cloning
      • Default pool needed -- messed up config of new client
    • LDAP: privacy flags and a manual merge of info

June 6, 2007

6. Juni 2007 -- Mittwoch

Admin

  • LDAP:
    • Privacy Flags
    • Several update issues from over the weekend!
    • Report for CatCard office
    • Approve new feed format from Banner
  • Backup:
    • Open issue with aborted clones showing up in the Media->Save Set section of NMC. Looks like it might be a bug
    • Ask PeopleSoft DBA's some questions about the RMAN problems they are having -- prior to opening an issue with EMC about the RMAN saves that are getting stuck
    • Open issue with EMC about how to merge the nsrserverhost clients that backup most things and the NetWorker Console Database into a single client
    • Empty off the final Indexes tape volume
  • Hiring: Read more resumes
  • General: Search for email messages that never arrived

June 5, 2007

5. Juni 2007 -- Dienstag

Admin

  • LDAP: Privacy flags
  • Hiring: Resume reading
  • Backup: configure new library client to replace old one removed

June 4, 2007

4. Juni 2007 -- Montag

Admin

  • Backup
    • Tape Libary disabled by apparent operator accident
    • Sessions getting stuck in NMC display although they really finished long ago
    • Consult on finalization of tape library order
  • LDAP: Several privacy flag settings
  • FootPrints: testing fails. Will need to create new virtual machine because of the embedded perl version and its hard coded paths

June 1, 2007

1. Juni 2007 -- Freitag

Admin

  • Accounts: Send eMail message to accounts to be removed
  • Backup:
    • Discovered NMC reporting created its own backup client entry! Research how to merge it into the main nsrserverhost backup entry
    • Give directions on how to change the tape orders around
  • LDAP:
    • Privacy flags
    • Paper Telephone Directory test extract
    • Monitoring for catastrophic failure indications of the LDAP->AD update process