It’s 4:30AM. Do you know where your System Admin is?
June 18th, 2008 Posted in WorkI do. All of us are still up. That’s right. One of those cliche all-nighters. What’s the cause of all this debauchery you ask? A server in Atlanta decided to shut down – for good. So, naturally, being the suck up (and by suck up, I mean bottom rung on the ladder), I (was) volunteered to drive to Atlanta tonight. Let me just tell you that driving early in the morning when you’re already mostly asleep sucks.
So, we sit here in an effort to provide the company with those fabled “five-nines.” Luckily, we have another hour and fifteen minutes to have this server back up and running before the calls start rolling in.
Oh, and an interesting side note: something that makes perfect sense, but that I had never thought about before. If the server that fails happens to also be the DHCP server for the site, you can reboot the switches to force the clients to renew their IP addresses. Useful if you’re not one to walk around to each workstation and do it manually. Think about it.