Maintenance Weekend (7/6 - 7/8)

[John Adams]

All,
Services will be up and down (mostly, up) through this weekend as I knock the cobwebs out of the cluster servers. Between AZ filth and home renovations, they look like cat boxes

I should be able to migrate web servers live, but the game server(s) will come down for migration and patch updates.

Hopefully you won't even notice

Your friendly IT guy,
JA

[John Adams]

fwiw, Maintenance went okay, with the exception of learning what the "reset to defaults" means on my extensive firewall Rules page

Having rebuilt dozens of rules, I think everything is still working. I also found in my pile of VMs a shiny new EQ2Emulator server I was working on 2 years ago that maybe I'll finish now so I can get rid of the rickety old Ubuntu 14.04 VM I've been holding together with spit and twine.

[Cynnar]

fwiw, Maintenance went okay

Thanks for removing the cat feces out of the litter box. It's a crappy job, but someone has to do it.

"reset to defaults"

It's not your friend. No matter what [mention]Jabantiz[/mention] says. It does remind me of the Windows 95 days when format seemed to be a weekly occurrence.. It made me a data horded. Keeping all those programs for reinstall.

[John Adams]

Clearly, you need an SMS instance running in your datacenter.

Oh I guess they stopped calling it SMS 20 years ago. SCOM, then. Oh wait, it's not that name anymore either.