Adventures in the life of a club promoter The Ballad of Steven the Tank

04/15/09 Work Rant

So my Official Title is: Senior UNIX Administrator. I’ve been known to be the patch bitch or the account audit whore but those are really tasks for Jr admins. My Current role has been changed and now I do all of the crap that no one else wants to do plus the day to day fire fighting. All in all not a bad gig if you can stomach doing mundane tasks like adding ftp accounts. But here lately I'm really a turning into a Custodial Engineer. I must get a pair of coveralls and a mop and rock that at work everyday. I have this guy that took my old job and he’s having the worst time ever filling my shoes. He doesn’t think of the ramifications of his actions…why…because I’m here to save the day. I wonder if I can get those coveralls with a big S on it lol but does that stand for Superman or Stupidman . Like today…homeboy gets a task to bump memory from 1gig to 3gig on a vmware server…not a big deal really right? Well that all depends if we have the sufficient enough of server resources to satisfy the new configuration and the current workload. I have setup my vmware farm with enough resources to handle 1 complete host server outage. With that I’ve enabled DRS: Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) continuously monitors utilization across resource pools and intelligently allocates available resources among virtual machines according to business needs. So in short when you boot another vm it HAS to check if it can fill the current workload PLUS the new workload your adding. In a lightly used farm this takes seconds but our farm in getting very busy. Hell memory utilization has jumped 15% since duffalong took over. So hommie gets worried that it’s taking too long to boot…hmm what should I do….cancel the operation midway! And if that doesn’t work I’ll taking it out of inventory and add it back…what are you FUCKING stupid…that would of 1) corrupted the 1 server (that’s kinda bad since it was a production box) and/or 2) screwed up the inventory list of that host server rendering it useless to be able to manage (very bad). Luckily by what only can be divine intervention he waited for the operation to complete! Then of course doesn’t ask me if this is normal or anything….he comments this to another admin who later informs me….what a way to mess up someone’s day…I’ve had acid reflux all damn day because of this. Then we move on to my other blunder. An ex contractor really jacked up a server by removing a core component that is linked to the kernel which controlled swap and disk access. We tried patching the box but wasn’t too sure if the box would be really good to go. So I spin up another box and setup the environment. But as usual no one wants to clean up after themselves and This lonely admin had to archive about 150k files that where older than 30 days. The damn thing got swapped over from a crashed system to a new stronger system in a few hrs and didn’t even get a thanks heheh oh well that’s what I get for being good.

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