Standing in the cold, staring at each other …
“How the hell is it working???“
We burst into laughter!
We just finalized major changes in our network and we discovered we missed one thing, that affected external communication to some of our internal servers. Those same servers were able to perform selected services that had nothing in common!!
It’s too late to put everything back, nahhh, it’s impossible ;P
We resort to … workarounds … and schedule the next change tomorrow …
Timetables are the least reliable factor I came to notice in IT projects, especially if you are working on an existing infrastructure.
The simplest things that go wrong, different networks are not routing to each other, so you need to connect physically to each to troubleshoot and as you connect and configure the IP settings and about to start, the laptop hibernates, you ran out of battery!! You get a cable to connect between two cabinets, one end connected, you’re about to connect the other end, damn the cable is too short! LOL!
You can never say we finalized and tested everything, unless some time passes by. The bigger the project and major changes the more time you need to confidently say, “Yes we completed the task successfully“.
I, for one, want to badly say that phrase, but can’t at this stage ;D
#1 by Marzouq on June 9, 2009 - 9:01 AM
Alah esa3dich! That sounds like a nightmare!! I would be going nuts too! Any major project we did in an existing infrastructure always took between 1-3 months for implementation and commissioning!!!
#2 by Bloggylife on June 9, 2009 - 9:42 PM
see IT ppl understand, if only others can understand too, they think it’s a matter of plug n play ;P
#3 by MBH on June 9, 2009 - 11:52 PM
We had no issues with new equipment & implementations. It’s the old undocumented, monkey-business infrastructure that make us pluck our eyebrows out!
2 years ago we had an Internet outage. We called the ISP & they say everything is fine from their end… after jumping around like rabid rabbits on steroids for 1.5 hours we found a stinky old D-Link 5-port switch hidden inside some cabinet between filthy old cables. This crap switch served as a simple joint because the cable was short……….
Too many stories to list… that was a quick sample…
Allah y3eenkom! But I’ll tell you know, workarounds will come around and bite you in the butt when you least expect!!!
#4 by Bloggylife on June 10, 2009 - 12:06 AM
MBH, don’t worry workarounds aren’t a permanent solution in my book. We just set them up because it was late, the next day we managed to solve the issue once and for all
Workarounds are temp solution for us to re-group 