Re: There needs to be something visible
Dear Kiwi - The fact that you don't understand my questions and, by your own admission, have rebooted the wrong server on more than one occasion suggests that I'm more experienced than you :-) I don't trust that someone has marked a server correctly, that its use hasn't changed or that the workload hasn't failed over to DR - `uname -a` and `ps -ef` are your real friends.
I did it once, 21 years ago. I learned from it. You know that "Oh no" moment? For me, it now comes before I hit "Enter". Since then, I've worked for multiple large companies as a sysadm/engineer, supporting thousands of mission critical servers in complex environments.
If you work in a "perfect" environment where everyone follows process and colours systems according to workload, I'm glad for you.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
