On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com> wrote:
Always did it by hand. 3 shifts, 22 people, multiple escalations and calling circles. Never needed a tool. Just always considered it a part of standard admin work.
I disagree with this, vehemently. That which is complex, repetitive, and error-prone should be *automated*. As senior professionals it is our job to identify these sorts of operational vulnerabilities and remedy them. After all, that's why we're using monitoring software in the first place, instead of just sitting there reading log files all day.
Reminds me of the T-shirt that says "Go Away or I Will Replace You with a Very Small Shell Script". If I have a task that can be replaced by a shell script, it's wasting my time and my employer's money for me to keep doing it. And I have a long list of better things to do. And if *all* of my tasks can be replaced by automation, well, I probably should find a better job :-)
So, question is how best to automate this, not *whether* I should.
Thanks Betsy