What Are You Doing Right Now
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crying
Killed one of our dell switches last night, well can't ping/access it after a OS update.
Got our MSP looking at why some ESXi servers can't see the SAN as there was a 2nd switch. Can ping everything hosts & SAN but they're just not talking. they set it up so they can fix
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
crying
Killed one of our dell switches last night, well can't ping/access it after a OS update.
Got our MSP looking at why some ESXi servers can't see the SAN as there was a 2nd switch. Can ping everything hosts & SAN but they're just not talking. they set it up so they can fixSomeone screwed up SAN failover switching, gasp, what a surprise.
Sorry for the snark while you're dealing with the aftermath.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Someone screwed up SAN failover switching, gasp, what a surprise.
Sorry for the snark while you're dealing with the aftermath.
Might not be 100% them, it might be due to the Dell Certificate issue as someone failed to update the switches before yesterday.
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Trying to get work scheduled so that I can actually get it off of my plate. Gah I hate it when things drag on.
Of course some of these changes are going to have breaking impacts to workflows....
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Laughing my ass off at red tape. Get a project. Reach out to specific vendors and get get the pricing and options. List four good options, with a #1 recommendation suitable for us. Get together with the C levels, and get it shot down as 'C' levels want to verify what we actually need from the options (which I did already). C levels spend several weeks in meetings, internally, externally... and come back with the exact same #1 recommendation. Pfft.
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@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Laughing my ass off at red tape. Get a project. Reach out to specific vendors and get get the pricing and options. List four good options, with a #1 recommendation suitable for us. Get together with the C levels, and get it shot down as 'C' levels want to verify what we actually need from the options (which I did already). C levels spend several weeks in meetings, internally, externally... and come back with the exact same #1 recommendation. Pfft.
Hopefully you didn't suck(er)ed into sitting in the several weeks of meetings, lol.
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@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Laughing my ass off at red tape. Get a project. Reach out to specific vendors and get get the pricing and options. List four good options, with a #1 recommendation suitable for us. Get together with the C levels, and get it shot down as 'C' levels want to verify what we actually need from the options (which I did already). C levels spend several weeks in meetings, internally, externally... and come back with the exact same #1 recommendation. Pfft.
So they are IT now?
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shaking my head again at a process that I've made a suggestion on how to 'fix'
Several of the POS card scanners have an issue with the Windows Service stopping. Have to remote to the desktop to restart them...
Has to be a better way and one that doesn't keep requiring Human intervention which may take 5-20 minutes depending on IT availability.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
shaking my head again at a process that I've made a suggestion on how to 'fix'
Several of the POS card scanners have an issue with the Windows Service stopping. Have to remote to the desktop to restart them...
Has to be a better way and one that doesn't keep requiring Human intervention which may take 5-20 minutes depending on IT availability.
Powershell script that runs once a minute (or once every x minutes) to check the service and restart it if needed?
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
shaking my head again at a process that I've made a suggestion on how to 'fix'
Several of the POS card scanners have an issue with the Windows Service stopping. Have to remote to the desktop to restart them...
Has to be a better way and one that doesn't keep requiring Human intervention which may take 5-20 minutes depending on IT availability.
Powershell script that runs once a minute (or once every x minutes) to check the service and restart it if needed?
My thoughts. Was about half way writing it when it was discovered that:
Powershell is disabled ...
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
shaking my head again at a process that I've made a suggestion on how to 'fix'
Several of the POS card scanners have an issue with the Windows Service stopping. Have to remote to the desktop to restart them...
Has to be a better way and one that doesn't keep requiring Human intervention which may take 5-20 minutes depending on IT availability.
Powershell script that runs once a minute (or once every x minutes) to check the service and restart it if needed?
My thoughts. Was about half way writing it when it was discovered that:
Powershell is disabled ...
Should be able to do it with a batch script, instead?
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
shaking my head again at a process that I've made a suggestion on how to 'fix'
Several of the POS card scanners have an issue with the Windows Service stopping. Have to remote to the desktop to restart them...
Has to be a better way and one that doesn't keep requiring Human intervention which may take 5-20 minutes depending on IT availability.
Powershell script that runs once a minute (or once every x minutes) to check the service and restart it if needed?
My thoughts. Was about half way writing it when it was discovered that:
Powershell is disabled ...
Use the command line then...
net start servicename -
What about having the service auto start on failure?
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What about having the service auto start on failure?
It is already set to auto start on failure. just that it fails enough it stops.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What about having the service auto start on failure?
It is already set to auto start on failure. just that it fails enough it stops.
wow - and they haven't decided it was worth finding the root cause on that yet? /sigh.
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Daily walk completed. Meal consumed. Time for RHCE prep.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Laughing my ass off at red tape. Get a project. Reach out to specific vendors and get get the pricing and options. List four good options, with a #1 recommendation suitable for us. Get together with the C levels, and get it shot down as 'C' levels want to verify what we actually need from the options (which I did already). C levels spend several weeks in meetings, internally, externally... and come back with the exact same #1 recommendation. Pfft.
So they are IT now?
By all accounts, yes.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Laughing my ass off at red tape. Get a project. Reach out to specific vendors and get get the pricing and options. List four good options, with a #1 recommendation suitable for us. Get together with the C levels, and get it shot down as 'C' levels want to verify what we actually need from the options (which I did already). C levels spend several weeks in meetings, internally, externally... and come back with the exact same #1 recommendation. Pfft.
So they are IT now?
By all accounts, yes.
frustrating yes, but at least they came back with same decision. coming back with a different decision would have been worse for you i'm guessing.
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weird dfsr problem on a dc.
old dc being reported as still alive in dfs rep group, but doesn't appear in metadata cleanup or dfs management app. -
Avoiding real work that i need to do by posting on here.
