I have so much to do I don’t know where to begin sometimes. Then I get side tracked with people making requests. I feel bad because I am telling them I need requests for most non-system down problems. Just because I won’t get anything done otherwise. I like that people still feel they can ask me to do stuff, but most user requests are completed by Keith and justin now. I am spending my time trying to figure out how to do a highly available FTP system for a new client of ours. I am also looking into getting MRTG working on a red hat box. I have the windows version downloaded, but I am trying linux first. Going to windows will be admitting defeat for me. I came to the conclusion today that I need more ready to go testing machines. I currently need 2-3 linux machines to test stuff on. MRTG, FTP, & DHCP/DNS. I also need to setup a windows domain on another machine. Proxy server on yet another box. I have no room at my desk and my server room is getting cramped. Not full yet, but it is getting interesting.
On top of priority issues I have to do a scripted IIS web server install with one of the developers. We need this for a system refresh we are planning. I don’t know when it will happen, but it needs to be soon.
On a good note, I bought a NAS (network attached storage) device a few weeks ago. We wanted it to move files between offices. It is 4x faster or so than our USB hard drive solution we had. The NAS is only 4lbs so we just bring it to the colo or our office and just plug it in. It is awesome. Our hard to please DBA’s were very happy about it.
I got a ton of hardware approvals today. Lots of misc gear to keep things running in top shape. Gus grumbled about it, but signed off. I think he likes doing that. I still need to ask for some more hard drives for our dev and qa servers. our databases are growing so much we keep running out of space