Maintenance

As I was prepping for tonight's maintenance, (glad I did) I found that one of the servers needed for our checks is missing the needed scripts.  So had messaged David but didn't get a response, so I ended up calling him to confirm.  Well, he walked me through moving them around which was nice and easy and now all the servers are prepped.  Now enjoy the panic of my fellow coworker:

Charles  (7:33 PM): Do you know where David's script is?
Charles  (7:35 PM): Emergency Situation
Charles  (7:35 PM): Please reply
Analicia (7:35 PM): Hit the power off switch 😛
Analicia (7:36 PM): Tis for emergencies
Charles  (7:36 PM): This is NOT a drill.
Charles  (7:36 PM): We have to run that script.
Charles  (7:36 PM): It is part of our procedures.
Analicia (7:36 PM): I am aware
Analicia (7:36 PM): and know how to run them
Analicia (7:36 PM): and have already verified they work and exist
Charles  (7:36 PM): OK, so you DO know where it is?
Analicia (7:36 PM): had to add it in to one of the servers since it mysteriously disappeared
Analicia (7:37 PM): Yea, I did this last month in November
Charles  (7:37 PM): Yes, that's great, can you please tell me where it is?
Charles  (7:37 PM): We're almost out of time
Analicia (7:37 PM): REDACTED File Location
Charles  (7:37 PM): OK, I must be on the wrong server then. It's not on REDACTED server name
Analicia (7:38 PM): dal0101, dal1001, and wdc0401
Charles  (7:42 PM): OK, we're good. My body is ready.

Glad that your body is ready, I just ran all the scripts and pasted everything where needed.  What was your reasoning for being here again?  I digress, its now 8:25 PM, 25 minutes into maintenance that hasn't started since we are waiting on networking to join the party.  And a majority of this I am going to sit here watching and fielding stupid people who can't read.  Oh, look there is networking 26 minutes late.

Maybe just maybe, we will get to start at 8:30 PM, or maybe not.  Who knows with this group.  This reminds me of school functions where nothing ever started on time because something or other ran things behind. And now the bitching about networking has begun, we are some salty people here. But can you blame them, we are 33 minutes into a window that is only so long.

41 minutes in and all the pre-maintenance checks are done which should have been finished before 8:00 PM but then again that constitutes that people show up and do their jobs.

But frankly, in comparison to last month's version of this maintenance, everything has gone much smoother.  We have made it through all of the internal steps with only a minor blip (there was a certificate mix up, which was unrelated to the changes made by the maintenance itself).  And now they are working on all the external-facing calls.  From what we have been told this means that we can do Phase 4 on Wednesday, which should complete all of the final moves of equipment out of our old Dal01.  We will have completed Exodus.