Project work
On the whole today was fairly ordinary. I had an early start at work (7:55) which gave me time to sort out a V20z for a BT engineer. Getting up at 7:10 was a bit easier today, thanks to an early night yesterday—I’ll probably do the same this evening, as I’m still feeling tired.
We had two short meetings today: the first with the guys in Singapore (where David and William are for the week), and then a lab team meeting in the afternoon to discuss the small projects we’ve been working on.
Each of the students have been “assigned” a production server to look after: I’ve got enonet, which is a NIS+ replica zone server. The global zone provides no services, but each of the (roughly) five zones is configured as a NIS+ backup server, mirroring the config for each of the primary production NIS+ geos.
A quick look suggests that enonet shouldn’t be a lot of work: it’s a more or less standard Solaris 10 (latest == good) install, with a single service in each domain. The only worry is that I’ll be asked to perform a live upgrade to a newer version of Solaris: a real pain when Zones are involved.
We also discussed our “work from home” day, and with any luck we’ll be starting this in a few weeks. The big problem for me is finding a project to work on. Right now I’m more or less down to do some JLT (our system booking tool) work related to post-booking, i.e. providing suitable notification to the labstaff when a booking expires, allowing us to remove non-default cards, storage, etc.
This post-booking work should be interesting to do: it’ll involve messing around with some Java, some Sybase SQL, Perl and the API for our ticketing system, ServiceDesk. But really this isn’t what I’d like to spend the bulk of my time doing… I need to come up with a decent project to work on, hopefully something that will save us all plenty of time, make our jobs easier, etc.
All suggestions welcome.
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