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First day impressions.
Jan. 3rd, 2005 05:58 pmSo, first day with EDS at the DMDC. This morning I got a whirlwind orientation with Janet, giving David (the other newbie, an older Japanese fellow) and myself an idea of where the group is at the moment, what skills are lacking, what we’ve got to do, and what tasks are expected to be taken up.
First impression is that I’ve dropped into a similar, but more competently staffed, version of what I had going back in SLO. We’re managing 160+ servers with 7 people. I was handed a set of servers which I will (once I have access) be watching every morning to make sure they’re healthy – 19 machines. Not too shabby, really, but not a small number, either.
I’ve already got a perl script I need to write dealing with Solaris’ wacky network failover system. It’s more of a rewrite; details will come as I understand it more, but it comes down to right now the script isn’t quite robust enough; under certain conditions, it doesn’t do its job. Very strange conditions, but possible ones, since they discovered the failure empirically on a production system.
I’m particularly interested in taking up the task of maintaining the group bulletin board. The bulletin board is something I wanted to do in SLO but couldn’t – didn’t have the time to maintain it. Here, it was set up by someone who thought it was a good idea, established, made sane, adopted… and then the guy left. So they’d like someone to pick it up. I hope to do so. It’s PHPbb, so not too hard to maintain, hopefully.
Oh, and they’ve already tagged me to pick up on LDAP. I didn’t get nearly as far as I’d like working the LDAP systems we got, so I’m very nervous, but I expect to pick it up pretty quickly, being me. Hopefully they’ll have documents on how to do it, since they’re not using the LDAP software I was vaguely familiar with. Eh, I’ll live.
They’re short on space, so I’m sorta stuffed in a cubicle whose usual occupant is nights only. Really, though, I’m going to be spending most of my time sitting with the folks in their little corner learning the world.
Overall the people seem quite decent. The environment is a leetle bit intimidating, but I think I can deal.
David, the other newbie, is apparently less technically experienced, but has serious experience with managing and coordinating disparate systems, so is expected to be able to pick up what’s going on and bring himself up to speed pretty quick. Meanwhile, I get to do some unlearning and a lotta learning. Thank god for that bulletin board.
First impression is that I’ve dropped into a similar, but more competently staffed, version of what I had going back in SLO. We’re managing 160+ servers with 7 people. I was handed a set of servers which I will (once I have access) be watching every morning to make sure they’re healthy – 19 machines. Not too shabby, really, but not a small number, either.
I’ve already got a perl script I need to write dealing with Solaris’ wacky network failover system. It’s more of a rewrite; details will come as I understand it more, but it comes down to right now the script isn’t quite robust enough; under certain conditions, it doesn’t do its job. Very strange conditions, but possible ones, since they discovered the failure empirically on a production system.
I’m particularly interested in taking up the task of maintaining the group bulletin board. The bulletin board is something I wanted to do in SLO but couldn’t – didn’t have the time to maintain it. Here, it was set up by someone who thought it was a good idea, established, made sane, adopted… and then the guy left. So they’d like someone to pick it up. I hope to do so. It’s PHPbb, so not too hard to maintain, hopefully.
Oh, and they’ve already tagged me to pick up on LDAP. I didn’t get nearly as far as I’d like working the LDAP systems we got, so I’m very nervous, but I expect to pick it up pretty quickly, being me. Hopefully they’ll have documents on how to do it, since they’re not using the LDAP software I was vaguely familiar with. Eh, I’ll live.
They’re short on space, so I’m sorta stuffed in a cubicle whose usual occupant is nights only. Really, though, I’m going to be spending most of my time sitting with the folks in their little corner learning the world.
Overall the people seem quite decent. The environment is a leetle bit intimidating, but I think I can deal.
David, the other newbie, is apparently less technically experienced, but has serious experience with managing and coordinating disparate systems, so is expected to be able to pick up what’s going on and bring himself up to speed pretty quick. Meanwhile, I get to do some unlearning and a lotta learning. Thank god for that bulletin board.
