Everyday, I'm part of the lucky ones who actually leave a fixed time.. However, when I'm gone, there is nobody to run the network.
Driving home, one day, I start getting alerts via sms complaining that a network link is down, blah blah blah.. Not a problem, I'll simply reroute the traffic when I get home.. right?
Next page I get, 2 minutes later, our PDC server has been rebooted, then another page, PDC server has been rebooted again, another page, firewall server has been rebooted, and it just doesn't stop, seems like everything is rebooting..
Of course, by now, I figured that someone who decided to to play sysadmin and thought he could simply reboot half of the servers just so that his internet would work again.
So I call the office, which breaks the relaxing mood of being stuck in traffic without any laptop or pda, and gently tell that person to stop f***ing around with the servers and he'll have to live without it.
Now, that's a panic moment, the moment when the user thinks he can fix a network problem by rebooting, and ruining my beautiful uptime stats.
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Everyday, I'm part of the lucky ones who actually leave a fixed time.. However, when I'm gone, there is nobody to run the network. Driving home, one day, I start getting alerts via sms complaining that a network link is down, blah blah blah.. Not a problem, I'll simply reroute the traffic when I get home.. right? Next page I get, 2 minutes later, our PDC server has been rebooted, then another page, PDC server has been rebooted again, another page, firewall server has been rebooted, and it just doesn't stop, seems like everything is rebooting.. Of course, by now, I figured that someone who decided to to play sysadmin and thought he could simply reboot half of the servers just so that his internet would work again. So I call the office, which breaks the relaxing mood of being stuck in traffic without any laptop or pda, and gently tell that person to stop f***ing around with the servers and he'll have to live without it. Now, that's a panic moment, the moment when the user thinks he can fix a network problem by rebooting, and ruining my beautiful uptime stats.