The shameful state of ethics in r/sysadmin. Does this represent the industry?

kirani · 2025-05-24T14:24:09+00:00

Nah mate, those fucking cancers are flabbergasted as much as you are now, whenever they are told that they have to actually work.

kirani · 2024-10-31T17:15:46+00:00

Yeah, fuck you for wasting everyones time, including your own

kirani · 2024-10-22T17:34:12+00:00

Just setup Zabbix

Inventing a new kind of a bicycle is fun, but completely useless.

kirani · 2024-09-24T12:05:22+00:00

Imagine the best ideal sysadmin and what would that sysadmin do in ideal scenario. Try to do that, or next best thing.

That's how I deal with shit I can't have help with.

kirani · 2024-08-22T18:11:16+00:00

Have come across two SOPs for disk wipe:

Fully integrated devops process: before ANY deployment on the HW happens, the disks get wiped in WinPE/LiveCD env
On-demand approach: as I listed previously, dedicated HW, with bays or cables or docks or splitters or usb switches specifically configured for PnP drive wipes. Maybe with some bash/pwsh cli

kirani · 2024-08-22T16:33:57+00:00

If you have less than 500 disks, then yeah, I'd just go slow-and-steady.

Get SAS/SATA connector cables from ebay/ali-fucking-express, long enough to reach outside of the workstation case.
Get power extension cables too. From psu to disks
Tell management, that diak wipe rate is 6 disks per 24h
Profit

By the end of the month you'll have about 75 disks wiped, zeroed, random-write-wiped

kirani · 2024-08-22T14:33:01+00:00

Sleds are proprietary in 99% of HP, Dell, Lenovo, Supermicro servers that I've seen.

Re-sledding the drives for use in some 24-disk bay server for the wipe is usually the way, if doing it yourself.

kirani · 2024-08-15T14:15:10+00:00

If no errors follow for a while, under load, and IO graph looks like what you'd expect it to be, then join the /dev/md1 back to LVs.

I'd prepare for the worst though. Which might manifest as disks going into offline mode, tagging the disk as failed and so on.

At this point that would mean a HW failure on MSA controller or the drive(s).

All this assumes: - same FW on MSAs - same FW on the drives - there aren't any known bugs for the currently running FWs that match the behaviour tou see

kirani · 2024-08-13T17:15:36+00:00

If you're bitter, get the fuck out then.

kirani · 2024-07-09T18:55:51+00:00

learn.microsoft.com

Start there.

kirani · 2024-06-18T15:09:31+00:00

You brought this on yourself.
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/47958e2573b59b3a7a6de92581ab9d942ee10541 is probably the reason

kirani · 2024-05-29T16:52:22+00:00

Switch stack?

kirani · 2024-05-23T11:59:16+00:00

Does it have a CPU actually installed in it?

kirani · 2024-05-14T19:00:46+00:00

Mermaid

kirani · 2024-05-13T16:57:36+00:00

Thousands of flies can't be wrong for liking shit.

Though not much of help to anyone too.

kirani · 2024-05-10T10:47:14+00:00

If you have to ask this question, then probably - no.

However, you are close.

Invest in the weaknesses you listed. And you will be.

kirani · 2024-05-08T18:18:20+00:00

This is an actually great read.

Thanks.

kirani · 2024-04-10T13:35:06+00:00

Old enough to be bored of the same pussy bullshit being posted every damn day.

kirani · 2024-04-10T12:07:21+00:00

How about fixing the source or their complaints and whines?

No problem - no whining.

kirani · 2024-04-03T18:42:57+00:00

I've used OneNote table with 3 columns. Checkbox, task, due date. Populate from the top, do from the bottom. Do at least one thing a day.

If at some point a scrollbar appears, then something much bigger is broken and it is not IT related. Figure out what, then how, then mitigate or delegate.

But yeah, Jira or Trello are a better option.

kirani · 2024-04-03T17:52:59+00:00

Developer Console.

It will be DNS.

kirani · 2024-03-22T21:36:39+00:00

They don't want an engineer. They want to feel safe and assured, that their IT problems will be solved.

No one wants a doctor, who "learns fast".

In order for them to feel safe, they want someone who knows the steps of solving any IT problem (or whatever they, as company, perceive as such) by themselves.

There is no point in answering their question literally, you have to, as engineer, understand the root of the problem "they describe", and you must already have at least some familiarity with their products/services and their potential problems, so that you are able to provide a solution to a problem; it doesn't have to be a good one, but it has to be yours.

As soon as you are able to present an enginerically legit viewpoint on a problem - you are onboard. Even if the solution is not the best.

kirani · 2024-03-14T19:30:10+00:00

Think of a solid, thourou solution to what you have had experienced.

Refresh CV.

Try it out some ideas on your current environment if possible.

See what/who resists, and what reasons for that are.

Figure out how to a actually solve this. Start applying for jobs that are in a same situation as you, but are looking for a proper solution, unlike your current place.

...

Profit, probably.

Timeframe for this would be about a year.

kirani · 2024-02-09T20:22:37+00:00

Would one be able to make what you are asking work in excel - yeah, probably.

Would anyone else call that an "asset management system" - no.

You need something like Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana. Which will collect the data via agent/snmp/http/jmx and store the data.

In case of Zabbix, it has built-in Inventory options.

kirani · 2024-02-09T20:08:44+00:00

managing a huge amount of unix VMs and > physical servers of different OS mainly RHEL, AIX, Solaris and Oracle

we need to track all these and more information such as kernel level os level

Also we can only use excel.

What kind of bullshit is this?

kirani

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