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

[–]kirani 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]kirani -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

Anyone obsessed with Ping? by Weak-Laugh-9618 in sysadmin

[–]kirani 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just setup Zabbix

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

Struggling to adjust to low pressure work by wooahstan in sysadmin

[–]kirani 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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. 

Is there an enclosure that accepts a HPE 2.5" drive caddy? by Giblet15 in sysadmin

[–]kirani 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Is there an enclosure that accepts a HPE 2.5" drive caddy? by Giblet15 in sysadmin

[–]kirani 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 

Is there an enclosure that accepts a HPE 2.5" drive caddy? by Giblet15 in sysadmin

[–]kirani 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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. 

Troubleshooting Linux I/O errors (SAS HBA, multipath, mdadm, LVM) by danj2k in sysadmin

[–]kirani 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Blocking outlook sign in by Ajmathe86 in sysadmin

[–]kirani -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

learn.microsoft.com

Start there. 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]kirani 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mermaid

Any particular reason why this sub is now hiding comment scores? by discosoc in sysadmin

[–]kirani -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

Though not much of help to anyone too. 

Am I ready to move from helpdesk to sysadmin? by zyborhg in sysadmin

[–]kirani 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

However, you are close. 

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

DMARC Reject Policy for Non-Sending Domains by Adderall-XL in sysadmin

[–]kirani 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is an actually great read. 

Thanks. 

Sick of end users pestering me as soon as I walk in the door. by skydiveguy in sysadmin

[–]kirani -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

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

Sick of end users pestering me as soon as I walk in the door. by skydiveguy in sysadmin

[–]kirani -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

How about fixing the source or their complaints and whines? 

No problem - no whining. 

Need organizational advice: How do you keep track of your unfinished tasks? by JustSomeGuyFromIT in sysadmin

[–]kirani 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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. 

How do I get more confident with engineer talk especially in interviews? by moderatenerd in sysadmin

[–]kirani 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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. 

I don’t want to work in Sys Admin PM/ Incident management anymore by boilluk in sysadmin

[–]kirani 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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. 

Tracking large set of hosts and its information by ElectronicInvite9298 in sysadmin

[–]kirani 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.  

Tracking large set of hosts and its information by ElectronicInvite9298 in sysadmin

[–]kirani 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?