Wow. Now that's a subject line. Well, I'm starting to bring them online. I've got the bastion host moved over for each site, and I doing the final tweaks like IP addresses, firewall settings, and such to make sure that all of the necessary connectivity is there.
Helix Server Hardware Migration: I moved the Helix virtual machines from the Intel resource pool over to the AMD resource pool. These two particular VMs had better performance on the AMD hardware due to a system call issue. I was also involved in changing the content NFS mounts over to a new network.
Web MySQL Patching: The BEVS01 server was patched to current RHEL4 standards. I also implemented a script to reset the client error counts at periodic intervals to alleviate issues with incorrect code and occassional vulnerability scanners.
Sun Identity Management: I am providing support for various aspects of the IDM projects, and this has consumed the majority of time for this month. I performed the CSM configuration for IDM gateway servers. This configuration is slightly different from our typical least connections load balancing method in that all connections are routed to the primary server until it becomes unavailable, and then connections are routed to the secondary. I also built the eight virtual machines for the LDAP component of the project. These were a complete rebuild from the current ELDAP01 and CLDAP01 since the file systems needed to be resized to avoid Nagios warning errrors when local database backups are being run. The VMs were resized from 10GB to 18GB. It took approximately two days to get everyone to agree on an acceptable file system layout. I also spent some time ensuring that each application on the LDAP servers could be started and stopped as a non-privileged user. As the LDAP servers were being configured by the IDEV team, I installed and configured the ESX servers at the VUH and Sungard data centers. I now have the VMs moved over to their respective servers, and I am in the process of verifying that all necessary connectivity is in place. I am still in the process of updating the server commissioning documents for these VMs.
Documentation: I spent a couple of nights documenting some procedures so that work can be shared among the team. The design specification for automating the IMAP to Exchange migrations; however, it needs to be tested and verified. I am also in the process of documenting a break fix procedure our Diamond IP management application.
CSM Support: I have also performed some intermittent CSM support for other App Hosting team members.
There are a few benefits to coming to work on Memorial Day. For starters, there is essentially no traffic on the way to work and I get my pick of the parking spots. The office is also really quiet, which means that I'll get to work undistracted for a few hours. I'm trying to finish up some of the IDM project tasks that I had started on last Friday, but I did not get to complete because of the campus power outage.