topic Re: greatest achievements in Operating System - HP-UX

greatest achievements

U.SivaKumar_2 — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 09:00:31 GMT

Hi all,

Please post the greatest achievement you think
that you have done in your life as a system administrator.

regards,
U.SivaKumar

"Expert is one who knows more and more about less and less"

Re: greatest achievements

Chris Wilshaw — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 09:14:41 GMT

Quite a useful one - learned to remain calm in a crisis.

Re: greatest achievements

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 09:16:57 GMT

Rewrote two 4GL applications in perl/DBI. One 48 hour process went back to 24 minutes, and one 9 hour process went back to 8 minutes.

Re: greatest achievements

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 09:21:17 GMT

?? Set up https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn to make a lot of useful stuff available to the ITRC forum members
?? Ported gcc-3 to HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00 in both 32- and 64-bit and made them available on beepz. [ You don't have the faintest idea how much effort it took to get the 64bit version running on 11.00 ]

Re: greatest achievements

Vicente Sanchez_3 — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 09:27:11 GMT

My first support recomendation.

A customers had a problem with Oracle DB. I recomended to increase values of several kernel parameters. It worked fine.

Re: greatest achievements

Ravi_8 — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 09:31:16 GMT

making oracle to work on HP platform without applying recommended patches.

Re: greatest achievements

Donald Kok — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 10:06:34 GMT

I learned to do maintainance one machine at a time. In case of a murphy incident I don't end up with a lot of machines in trouble in the middle of the night.

Re: greatest achievements

BFA6 — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 10:53:53 GMT

Hi,

Greatest achievements - not making too many blunders :-)

Regards,

Hilary

Re: greatest achievements

Justo Exposito — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 10:56:05 GMT

Hi,

To adapt two 9000 production boxes for year 2000 in a month out of office time.
Change from HP/UX 9.00 to 10.20 and apply all the Y2K patches, change Ingres database from Ingres 6.4 to OpenIngres 1.2,
change the application ManMan/X to Manufacturing Knowledge jumping to 5 versions later and all fine at a time.

Regards,

Justo.

Re: greatest achievements

Pete Randall — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 11:11:06 GMT

My greatest achievement would have to be getting out of the IBM mainframe world and into HP-UX.

Pete

Re: greatest achievements

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 11:27:40 GMT

I think a lot will agree that there is nothing particularly difficult in admin other than being careful.. public itrc contributions of all sorts must be high on everyones list here..

Later,
Bill

Re: greatest achievements

harry d brown jr — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 12:03:28 GMT

The one that saved my company $$$$$$$$$$$$:

Forcing the "backup" team to look at another backup product other than Veritas, which was originally priced at over 7 million dollars. We had EMC give us a quote for the EDM backup software which forced Veritas to get a clue. Yeah we saved 5 million dollars and are stuck with Veritas, which really isn't cutting the mustard, but hey, we saved 5 million! If we had actually purchased EDM, we'd be doing backups right now. Never mind that the project is eight months into implementation! Oh well, I guess one battle at a time.

live free or die
harry

Re: greatest achievements

Robert Thorneycroft — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 12:52:12 GMT

Years ago when I was just starting out as an administrator my company had just signed up for DR with HP. At the time the whole thing was a manual process with a few dummy scripts to help out.

After the first rehearsal I thought screw all that for a game of dominos, I am sure I can write a script to do everything automagically. Anyhow I sat down for about a day and wrote a script which I was unable to test.

The next time I went to DR I ran the script for the 1st time and it configured a cold install to a working instance in one command with no additional configuration required other than a pre-prepared config file.

The recovery expert at the time said he had never heard of anyone else have a completely automated script which actually worked 100%.

At the time I had been a sys admin for about 3 months with no prior unix experience. Needless to say they had to have the door widened to get my head out of the room ;)

Re: greatest achievements

Rita C Workman — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 13:22:24 GMT

Unraveling the spaghetti administration the former 'consultants' did to the systems here. Obviously, done to ensure they would never be gotten rid of. It took 18 months to find it ALL...it was a nightmare !

Managing to survive - still employed (and the newbie UNIX person) here - in spite of the politics of new administrations.

And my biggest achievement I would say has been that no matter what has 'hit the fan' I am still here ! And as others have said...have still managed to keep my calm (pretty much !).

Regards,
Rita

Re: greatest achievements

Rita C Workman — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 13:24:23 GMT

Forgot one...and I am still in the top 25 of the ITRC Forums.

Rita

..now if I could just get these projects done by March, maybe I could spend some REAL time out here...

Re: greatest achievements

John Payne_2 — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 14:13:26 GMT

I think Rita hit it on the head:

Still employed.

Lots of people aren't or are under employed. You won't here me complain. (Too loud)

John

Re: greatest achievements

Christopher McCray_1 — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 14:53:40 GMT

Hello,

One of my greatest achievements is making a successful transistion as a small-time Solaris/VMS administrator in the Army to an administrator of a enormous (by comparison) HPUX environment and have been successful. In short, I stepped onto the runway and didn't get sqashed.

Another, and just as important, I'm still (echo)employed, gainfully.

The greatest accomplishment in my mind, however not administrator-related, is being the proud father of two healthy, strong boys.

Regards,

Chris

Re: greatest achievements

Robert DJ — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 14:57:27 GMT

Hi,

The first Step or basic thing in all fields is to accomplish a certain tasks.....

One of the tasks accomplished widely was fixing a Tivoli Backup Server on HP.

Hope everyone are happy with all tasks and steps acheived till date...........

Lets Hope & Give the Best.

Regards,
Robert.

Re: greatest achievements

Ken Hubnik_2 — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 15:01:51 GMT

Converting from an IBM mainframe shop to an all HP environment.

Re: greatest achievements

John Bolene — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 15:29:56 GMT

Getting my company to purchase dual EMC Symmetrix disk systems linked by URDF on the UNISYS mainframe. We normally had 1 or 2 disk related outages a month before, after conversion we finally had 1 disk related outage after 4 years. It also reduced my disk maintenance hours from 30 a week to 2 a week.

I have been unsuccesful in getting the same done for UNIX, but we do have a SAN solution in the works for next year. Hopefully next year at this time, I can report this as a success.