July 2012 - Core-students - mailman3.cels.anl.gov

Agenda and Notes from Services Meeting, 7/19/12, 9:30 - 10:30 AM
by Craig Stacey 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

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Fwd: Next IT Maintenance weekend coming, Aug 17-19
by Craig Stacey 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

Any work we want to plan for this period? -- Craig Begin forwarded message: > From: Paul Domagala <domagala(a)anl.gov> > Subject: Next IT Maintenance weekend coming, Aug 17-19 > Date: July 23, 2012 11:47:15 AM CDT > To: IT Admins Announce <anl-it-admins-announce(a)anl.gov> > > Just a heads up. The next IT Maintenance weekend is a little under a month out, Aug 17-19. Details to follow once plans have converged. Please make your users and management aware of this and get back to me or Jim Dust if you have any concerns or potential conflicts. > > > > Paul >

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[CELS Sysadmins] Fwd: [LISA] Dear Mom and Dad
by Tisha Stacey 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [operations] Fwd: [LISA] Dear Mom and Dad Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:25:22 -0500 From: John Reddy <john.reddy(a)gmail.com> To: operations(a)alcf.anl.gov ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tom Limoncelli <tal(a)whatexit.org> Date: Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:01 PM Subject: [LISA] Dear Mom and Dad To: "lisa-members(a)hoshi.usenix.org" <lisa-members(a)hoshi.usenix.org> Dear Mom And Dad, Many times I've tried to explain to you what I do for a living. "Computer system administrator" or "sysadmin" is a career that is difficult to explain and I'm sure my attempts have left you even more confused. I have good news. Oxford University Press has just published a book by 4 scientists who video taped sysadmins doing their job, analysed what they do, and explains it to the non-computer person. They do it by telling compelling stories of sysadmins at work plus they give interesting analysis with great insight. Why did they do this? Because businesses depend on technology more and more and that means they depend on sysadmins more and more. Yet most CEOs don't understand what we do. The scientists made some interesting discoveries: that our jobs are high-stress, high-risk, and highly collaborative. We invent our own tools, often on the spot, to solve complex problems. We are men and women of every age group. It is a career unlike any other. These are things that most people don't know about our profession. The book is very engaging: Some of the chapters read like the opening scene of "Indiana Jones"; others like "Gorillas in the Mist." Kandogan, Maglio, Haber and Bailey have put together a very serious, scientific book with care and compassion. I'm not one of the sysadmins they studied but every story they tell reminds me of real experiences I have had. I hope you enjoy reading this book. I know I did. Pre-order it here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195374126/tomontime-20 Sincerely, Tom P.S. In all seriousness, I read a draft of this book and highly recommend it to others. You may have seen the authors speak at Usenix LISA or LOPSA PICC conferences where they showed clips of the video tapes they made. The book conveys the same stories, plus many more, with interesting analysis. If you think that the profession of system administration would benefit from non-sysadmins better understanding what we do, I highly recommend you pre-order this book and share it. You can pre-order it here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195374126/tomontime-20 More about the book here: http://everythingsysadmin.com/2012/07/kandogan.html -- http://EverythingSysadmin.com -- my blog http://www.TomOnTime.com -- my videos _______________________________________________ lisa-members mailing list lisa-members(a)lists.usenix.org http://lists.usenix.org/mailman/listinfo/lisa-members _______________________________________________ This is the CELS Sysadmins mailing list. It is sent to memebers of core-admins(a)mcs.anl.gov and systems(a)alcf.anl.gov. Do not subscribe directly to this list. Thanks.

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Where's Craig next week
by Craig Stacey 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

Currently planning to take Friday 8/3 as a vacation day. I may be taking Wednesday 8/1 as well, will know by this time next week. I'll send a notice either way. -- Craig

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Where's Dan next week edition
by Dan Olson 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

I'm taking some much needed vacation time next week in beautiful Kissimmee, FL. I'm probably going to be avoiding email.. If something catches fire leave me a message at 630-324-0000. ---- Daniel Murphy-Olson Systems Administrator Mathematics & Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory 630-252-0055

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Notifications for wilbur
by Craig Stacey 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

I've put wilbur.mcs.anl.gov into a known down state in nagios for the next two hours so it stops spamming about all the services that are down on it. Still working to bring it up - couldn't raise Dan via phone. If anyone reading this has ideas, bring 'em. -- Craig

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Today's user termination list
by stace＠mcs.anl.gov 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

Full list of people who no longer appear on the active employee list =========================================================================== 63723 PSC Qiu, Chen 81212 PSC Ridilla, Marc R. 82746 PSC Hase, Thomas P.A. 84978 PSC Liu, Yu 88163 PSC Gakhar, Lokesh 203741 PSC Estupinan, Edgar G. 218362 PSC Varga, Zoltan 219513 PSC Kovaleva, Svetlana 219645 PSC Hu, Hefei 219714 PSC Lee, Sungsoo 219728 PSC Chung, Hak Suk 219731 PSC Choi, Woongsoon 219735 PSC King, Penelope L. 219756 PSC Xia, Qi 219803 PSC van Thor, Jasper J. 221011 PSC Galloway, Nickolaus R. 221013 ES Gallo, Eric 221015 ES Smith, David 221020 PSC Comes, Ryan B. 221022 PSC Bernstein, Gary 221023 PSC Lucero, Dominic F.

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Today's user termination list
by stace＠mcs.anl.gov 22 Jul '12

22 Jul '12

Full list of people who no longer appear on the active employee list =========================================================================== 64174 PSC Funk, Max O. 64949 PSC Yernool, Dinesh A. 66971 PSC Chen, Bin 86991 PSC Hanson, Leif 212688 PSC Singh, Mani 220940 PSC Duerr, Katharina L. 220964 PSC Dey, Himadri Shekhar 221007 PSC Cotruvo, Joseph A. 224568 HR Frencher, Jana

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Today's user termination list
by stace＠mcs.anl.gov 21 Jul '12

21 Jul '12

Full list of people who no longer appear on the active employee list =========================================================================== 59090 NE Weathered, Matthew T. 59768 MCS Lubin, Miles C. 67570 PSC Kimberlin, Christopher R. 200484 PHY Cross, David S. 220972 PSC Skipwith, Christopher G. 220982 PSC King, Liam B. 220985 PSC Lee, Shirley Y. 220995 HEP Boveia, Antonio

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NetApp Meetings
by Craig Stacey 20 Jul '12

20 Jul '12

Please RSVP on the meeting invites if you're coming. If you're going to either (or both), you can come out to lunch on USI. Once we have a headcount we can throw around ideas on where to go. -- Craig

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