The Simple Things
Sunday night... all's quiet... then comes the ring. It's work... things are down... please help.
It's not a great way to start the week. Last night I got called because things weren't working as they should. I come to find out that the linux servers have been rebooted without letting me know. This is a serious problem as the processes that run on most of them can't be in the chkconfig profile to start on startup. So I was trying to fix one thing, and found that another process on another machine wasn't running and that was the source of the problem, etc. It was a mess.
When I finally got things under control this morning for production, I counted seventeen, that's 17, machines had been rebooted and not a word on the planned outage, or a phone call on the work done so that I can get things going again in an orderly fashion. So I had to send an email to the Unix Sys Admins asking why I wasn't told anything. No reason, no excuse. Just my bad luck, the answer.
Next time, they are going to call me. I manage apps on 29 servers around the globe and they all depend in one way on each other. I can't be in the dark like this on a regular basis. No fun at all.