lcummins
Universal MODster
Did you ever have one of those days? You know, the kind where everything just seems to go wrong or be off; like the whole universe has skipped a cog and is mis-aligned.
First thing this morning, after unpacking, I discovered that my poor Grey Hulk PF has to go back for replacement.
Then, as the day just started to get going, our network starts acting a bit funny; not ha-ha funny, strange funny... which involves me since I'm the Network Admin. Nothing too unusual, just some odd happenings; nothing to make me go to the server room and begin an investigation. Of course, that is exactly what I should have done! Just before lunch, not one, but two of our Domain Controllers decided to go "belly up"!!! For you non-technical folk, the Domain Controller is the "brains" of a network (well, Windows network anyway), and a small company will usually only have one or two. We fortunately have three, so at least our network kept going! But, in another unfortunate twist of fate, our AutoCAD licensing application is distributed among three servers for redundancy, and at least two of those servers need to be running for the application to serve licenses to client machines. Guess what? Two of the three servers were the two Domain Controllers! So, not only do I have two downed servers, but about a third of the office is suddenly not working!
Well, within short order, I had one of the Domain Controllers back up and running and had gotten a new single server license from AutoDesk so that a single server could issue AutoCAD licenses to the clients. The network is humming along again, the AutoCAD users are back working and I'm left with a Domain Controller that keeps telling me that the "Operating System Not Found"!!!
Now, the long slow process of figuring out just exactly what happened and trying to get that server running again, or heaven forbid, rebuild it! And before anyone asks, no, it was not a trojan, worm, virus, etc. Something caused both machines to run out of resources and basically just shut down. It may have something to do with either our backup software, our defragmentation software, or a combination of the two.
Anywho... how's your day going???
First thing this morning, after unpacking, I discovered that my poor Grey Hulk PF has to go back for replacement.
Then, as the day just started to get going, our network starts acting a bit funny; not ha-ha funny, strange funny... which involves me since I'm the Network Admin. Nothing too unusual, just some odd happenings; nothing to make me go to the server room and begin an investigation. Of course, that is exactly what I should have done! Just before lunch, not one, but two of our Domain Controllers decided to go "belly up"!!! For you non-technical folk, the Domain Controller is the "brains" of a network (well, Windows network anyway), and a small company will usually only have one or two. We fortunately have three, so at least our network kept going! But, in another unfortunate twist of fate, our AutoCAD licensing application is distributed among three servers for redundancy, and at least two of those servers need to be running for the application to serve licenses to client machines. Guess what? Two of the three servers were the two Domain Controllers! So, not only do I have two downed servers, but about a third of the office is suddenly not working!
Well, within short order, I had one of the Domain Controllers back up and running and had gotten a new single server license from AutoDesk so that a single server could issue AutoCAD licenses to the clients. The network is humming along again, the AutoCAD users are back working and I'm left with a Domain Controller that keeps telling me that the "Operating System Not Found"!!!
Now, the long slow process of figuring out just exactly what happened and trying to get that server running again, or heaven forbid, rebuild it! And before anyone asks, no, it was not a trojan, worm, virus, etc. Something caused both machines to run out of resources and basically just shut down. It may have something to do with either our backup software, our defragmentation software, or a combination of the two.
Anywho... how's your day going???
