Frank's Activity Log

On Call

• 0135: monitoring system down page -- false alarm

Admin

• Backup: reset authorization parameters because previous instructions munged them.
• LDAP: provide new rpm's to mail gateway machines
• Babysit the servers for the first-year's registration time
• FileServers -- filesystem clearing

WoW

• Getting to high levels of fishing skill can cause twitches!

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On Call

• webfarm problem
• fileserver space issues

Activity Log

• Backup -- COMIS work
• LDAP -- DOS vector

Posted by at 3:34 PM | Permalink

Admin

• Backup: TLS drive7 three flashing leds problem -- wound up rebooting storage node to clear all residual problems
• Backup: EMC 20292396: provide the ulimit -a and truss output requested to show that the memory issue is not real in this recover 7.3.3 on aix problem
• Backup: Work on cloning script
• Backup: Start manual cloning of one save group that failed to clone over the weekend

On Call

• All Quiet on the pager front

Posted by at 10:36 AM | Permalink

On Call

• In-MailGW critical
• /rack5d space

Posted by at 11:59 PM | Permalink

On Call

• Temporary HDISK error
• In-MailGW critical -- three times

Posted by at 7:15 PM | Permalink

Admin

• Blog:
  • Replaced the "mt/mt.cgi" file with a simple perl script to basically say "hello" and it still fails -- it has to be an Apache problem
• virusscan: Updated to have DCE credentials
• CMD FP Issue -- student with lost iMovieProject
• DHCP/DNS config for echo

On-Call

• LDAP: catcard system is being upgraded and delivered a 0 entry file which caused all id card values to be wiped from LDAP. Went back to yesterday's file and restored them. --- 3.5 hours CTE

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Admin

• New Blog... yippee!
• shutdown old (now unused) gameserver
• Reseat blade 10 to clear a spurious memory error!
• Set up console for last web server
• Blog:
  • make backup of the OLD server entries
  • delete my blog
  • create a new blog for me
  • Same Internal Error going to log in page! :(
• Listserv move ... dns and mail routing changes: CTE 1.5 hours

On-Call

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Admin

• LDAP: logic error in dealing with null (empty/missing) titles from PeopleSoft
• Calendar: unidbfix and up2date
  • up2date took 30 minutes
  • unidbfix process took three (3) hours

OnCall

• only pages were that one of the in-mailgw machines had a high load

Posted by at 11:53 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• EchoVermont.org -- web server switch
• Accounts -- Another account that has the password encoded wrong
• Accounts -- Audit finds 8 other accounts with similar problem... fixed
• Accounts: dcecp replacement scripts
  • deactivate_account
  • reactivate_account
  • set_expdate_account

On Call

• cat301 - nuisance pages (flapping)
• copperhead - ipf failure
• groundhog/ldap - disk filled up

Posted by at 8:51 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• Three new echovermont.org virtuser entries created
• Request for quote sent to BlackBox.com for part CBCA197370
• Argue with Oracle about three of the four open SR's...
  • 5579086.993 - Affine encryption
    • Oracle requests that the server be modified to not require encryption...
    • YEAH, RIGHT. NOT!!!!
  • 5584043.993 - Suggest Date/Time broken on Mac client
    • Oracle says this is bug 5382125 and will be fixed in client version 10.1.3
    • The bug doesn't show up in searches and no time given for when 10.1.3 will be released
    • Oracle says the bug is visible now but no word on when 10.1.3 will be released
    • I still can't find the bug by doing a search based on the bug number...
  • 5580865.992 - universion generates garbage files in .../ocal/bin
    • Oracle says this is a known issue in the 9.0.4 server and is fixed in 10.1.2
    • What's the bug number?
    • Oracle says they can't tell me because it was reported by a different customer and therefore is confidential
• Open issue 2600 in CATalyst Issue Log to determine what the Affiliation "PUA" means
  • CATalyst redirects the issue to HR
• Update the PeopleSoft_Engine.pl module to complain when Affiliations without translations are found
• Transfer the PeopleSoft_Engine.pl module update to the IdM Separation project version

On Call

• 0238: 6 nsrexecd's running on a backup server -- nagios configured for 2-4, more or less is a critical error
  • Why?
  • Hmmm... discussion results in reconfiguration for warnings and only critical (page) if less than 1 or more than 25 are running

Posted by at 8:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• account removals finished at 2am
• Manually run the AD update script
• discover a bug in the code, fix it and run the AD update script again

On Call

• cat400 filesystem filled up at 11:38
  • Unable to get a response on the CATalyst pager
  • Tried a CATalyst team member directly -- no response
  • Called CATalyst team lead at home
  • Followed directions of team lead to
    1. Disable the paging
    2. Send a note to the CATalyst team explaining the problem and ask that they clean up the filesystem
• rmxcreds segfault 11 at 5:50am Monday morning -- no clue about problem -- no repeat performance

Posted by at 10:53 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• Remove accounts 6377
• Discover that HR is renaming departments again... open Footprints ISSUE=2484 PROJ=36

On-Call

• No activity

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