It’s a busy weekend for our company’s IT. There is lots of work going on in our server/comms room; our telephone exchange is being upgraded and, as part of that, it is being rewired to consolidate it from two six feet high cabinets into one. The redundant cabinet is being replaced with one that can contain rack-mount servers which will release a lot of valuable floor-space.
Because of all this work going on, we’ve taken the opportunity to power down most of the network and do the annual maintenance of the servers (which actually mostly involves just taking a vacuum cleaner to their innards!)
A side benefit of having a long period of official ‘downtime’ is that I can research some problems which (because they involve frequent reboots of the firewall) would otherwise be glacially slow to solve. (Because of the disruption it causes to people working in the office, rebooting the firewall can only be done out-of-hours and after lots of advance notice to our remote users.) Sure enough, in less than an hour’s work yesterday I solved a problem that had been bugging me for months and also, inadvertently, found a fix to an issue the company have had for years! Working out something like that, after so long, is a great feeling.
Today is mostly going to be spent reversing the shut down and making sure everything is working again ready for Monday morning.
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