Be careful what you wish for. *SMACK* Be careful what you wish for. *SMACK*

[reddragdiva]

If I ever whine about how bored I am at work again, just bring out the pounding cluebat sodomy. More tape jokebox shite, a pile of small tasks in moving the Oracle server, setting up a user account on the frigging Moon without documentation, working out which of shifting FlexLM or Legato off the everything server will be less reminiscent of a razorwire dildo, setting up the weekend backup tape set and, oh yes, I also have to spend at least an hour on the phone to the offsite tape storage place working out just what of ours they actually have.

Although yesterday I got the happiest news I've had at work in a while: they're actually planning to set up a separate backup server that won't have the DNS, NIS and license services on it. And after yesterday and today's jokebox fun, the process is being accelerated. w00t.

It would help if my brain had started this morning. Excessive caffeine and two Sudafed (~= Speed For The Crap) leaves Jack just as dull a boy. With added buzzing.

Considering Slimelight tomorrow - free before 11:30pm. ladylilith is off to Bath and Brizzle for the weekend and ali_anarres (she has indeed supped of the LJ Kool-Aid) is off to a housewarming in Manchester - anyone else Sliming?

Comments

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

Moving Nyetworker would have to be really bad before I'd chose to move FlexLM instead. Which it could be -- I've avoided the thing like the plague since getting a taste back at the sausage factory -- but I do really really mean BAD. Very fucking bad indeed.

I'd rather support NT weenies in Thailand trying to set up ClearCase with Multisite on Solaris than move a FlexLM install. I've done both, so I have some idea just what that implies.

[reddragdiva]

Eegh, how annoying. The ideal plan was to shift DNS/NIS/FlexLM to an old spare Ultra and fill the current E450 with enough CPU to do gigabit nicely (nicer than it does now) and then use it as the backup server. Please to give details of the pain, the precise sharpness and spirals of the razorwire?

My esteemed coworker returns from holidays Monday week; I think we'll make it his problem.

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

It depends a lot on your environment. If you're lucky enough to be using UNIX workstations over which you have complete control, you can use whatever distribution method you already use to push out an updated set of license config files (not license keys, but files that point the way to the license server).

The hairy bit is that, IIRC, some license keys are locked to the license server by hostname+hostid. So there may be some fucking about getting new keys, and of course making those new keys *work*, which is not always an easy job.

But given time and someone who is able to think for themselves, it can be done. It just isn't much fun.

[reddragdiva]

The hairy bit is that, IIRC, some license keys are locked to the license server by hostname+hostid. So there may be some fucking about getting new keys, and of course making those new keys *work*, which is not always an easy job."

Yeah, that's what I thought. Basically it'll be a case of contacting twenty vendors. Unless we can pull some funky tricks with the hostID when the name moves to a different box.

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

You can in theory change the hostid on a Solaris box. Just make sure you don't get caught out by NyetWorker in that case -- the hostid and the MAC address are linked, so you can't have two boxes with the same hostid on the same network.

Hopefully none of the products you're using have been EOLed. If they have, then life could get really interesting.

Have fun!

[mikz.livejournal.com]

Okay, so maybe I should've said something... =)

BTW, I'm really glad to hear about the separate backup server too! It sounds like the clue-by-fours are working...