Tight on Resource

One of our sys admin people has gone back to his hometown as wife just gave birth to a boy, 2nd child. The other sys admin, whom is still new to the work, is now having a hard time covering his area, so, I have to help out.

Two days ago, the network guy last him wallet and some of his documents, had to make a police report, also, need time away to re-reply for the documents as he will need them for his travelling between here and his hometown. Not only was he not around, his backup was also at another site.

For the last few days, lunch for me is mostly eating alone. The other sys admin (she) simply refused to eat lunch with me.

In a wonderful world, but, pathetically lonely...

Recovering from Flu

The last time I had a flu was more than 4 years ago. So, for the last 4 years, i always went for my yearly flu vaccination.

I have had flu for the last 2 weeks, I guess the flu vaccine had already expired, in fact, for almost 5 months. Lesson learnt: better go for the vaccination again, especially, I will be going overseas next month, don't really want to get struck by flu again.

Well, today, I went back to office to help my fellow System administrator to patch the server, HP-UX, she is new and needs help. Wow, so long never patch servers, almost forgotten how to do it.

Incident reports

3 months in the job, already with at least 4 incidents happening, and other smaller ones not recorded, i.e. managed to cover up.

Most of the incidents were due to human errors, like today, one of the operators mis-keyed a command, mistaken 'z' for 'd'. As a result, the whole system hung and it had to be rebooted or in mainframe's term, IPL. When everything comes up, checked system ok, database ok and website ok, but, next morning during online, users cannot log on. System and middleware guys checked ok, but database side saw an utility holding on to some tables. After getting the agreement from the Apps, the System DBA terminated the utility, everything back to normal, login was ok.

I had to do the incident report again, and do some damage control, the system owner was asking for the names of the operator who made the mistake, oh gosh, should I give names? I'm now in a dilemma man....