Peter Woods

Sun Identity Management: I am making arrangements to get the hardware installed in the VUH and Sungard data centers.

Nagios Enhancement: The new Nagios server has been very stable, and we are continually adding new devices and services to be monitored.

Web Security Incidents: I spent nearly three whole days investigating, cleaning, and fixing various web applications on the primary web servers. Due to the open nature of this post, I won't divulge specifics of what occurred, but needless to say, there was an opportunity for some site owners to secure their websites. The situation was corrected with minimal impact to users and no impact to the core sites.

Cohosted Web Server Patching: The cohosted web servers were patched to current RHEL4 standards.

Streaming Servers Move: HelixA and HelixB have been moved to a new network for performance reasons. This was also used an opportunity to re-evaluate the local firewall rules.

Blog Services: There are now 55 organizational and 105 personal blogs on the blogs servers. I have started the testing to begin the upgrade of the blogs to WordPress 2.5.

PBX Pager Phase II: The Iolan TCP serial port was removed from Jprod1 and Jprod2. It will be moved to the Jtest1 server for development use.

Team Dynamics: Now that Troy has officially started for the team, I've started transitioning some of my operational work to his near-empty list. Troy is now the primary administrator for the Jprod servers, the webmail servers, the Sitemason servers, and the development Bluestem servers. We are also getting him acclimated to being on the other side of the operational tasks.

I decided to give myself a little upgrade on blog. It's a wee bit different than the previous version that I was running.We'll see how this goes. Troy gets to start with the new version.

I just finished up my change to remove the Trueport serial device from the Jprod servers. It took just a few seconds to shutdown the software, remove the device files, and disable the startup script. I also took the time to update my Pidgin client since I was up.

Today was my first day that I was down two on the Unix team.  I'm out one to position transfer and one to a family addition. The next few weeks are definitely going to be fun. I've already got a 7AM-4AM day going on Wednesday. Luckily my Magic queue is at zero.  I'm trying to get used to the new DNS admin tool that Raymer implemented before taking off. After many years of vi, it takes a bit to get used clicking through the new tool.  The on-call rotation is much quicker too.

I think that this is the first time since I've been in the Magic system that I've had no tickets in my queue.  I had to get a screen snippet to show off.