Well, at least I know ahead of time what tonight’s nightmares are gonna be about.
Hello fellow sufferer.
Not quite the same on my end but it ended up in the same place. When I started there were already two instances running (one for the parent company and one at my location, which had gotten acquired). Maybe a hundred nodes all together, and our job was just responding to alerts in a mostly out of the box setup. Then my boss got sick of trying to work around limitations of that setup and demanded admin access so our team could at least make adjustments. Which eventually turned into me being asked to add nodes, which turned into me being the primary administrator. Which was actually pretty sweet for a bit because I got to learn a lot, both about the software and the company. Finally convinced management to merge the two installations rather than rely on that EOC garbage.
Then the acquisitions started rolling in.
By the time I walked out there were 2000+ nodes in a dozen locations, and it was still just me and somehow still just a side job.
Orion has its faults but after migrating so many acquisitions from a handful of other platforms I still prefer it. Everything seems like it’s optimized for small installations and/or specific platforms. When shit gets that big you need a team to run it properly. Which is why I’m allowed to say “Solarwinds” in my house, but guests are asked to leave if they mention the C-suite as anything but sociopathic leeches.
Depends on their level of interest and/or knowledge. My job isn’t exciting or prestigious, just niche/specialized. Most of the time when I say what I do, I get a blank stare. If that’s the case I’ll just say “I babysit computers” and leave it at that. I’ve had the conversation enough times that I know it’s not worth the effort to try explaining it further. “Oh, you work with computers? My brother in law is a programmer, perhaps you’ve met him?”
Sometimes people will get the gist of it just from the title, and these are usually the most interesting conversations because they’ve made the (un?)conscious effort to understand something new to them. I am totally down with that.
On very rare occasions someone will actually know what it is that I do. This inevitably leads to trading war stories about redundant alerts to please management, unbalanced power loads, poorly defined environments handed over with little to no explanation, cable curtains, and how even other IT people have no clue what we’re on about half the time.
I juggled datacenter design/management/maintenance, infrastructure, and enterprise monitoring, but only one of those was tied to my “Senior Engineer” title. The rest were just things that ended up as my job because I was good at them. So my resume looks like I’m lying through my teeth. Thanks, aversion to change!
Shout out to any other Solarwinds Orion admins who got that mess duct taped to their position. Drinking game idea: take a shot for every 100 nodes being managed. Or don’t, if it’ll lead to alcohol poisoning. 😒
Loving all of the Odd Taxi mentions.
From my spouse:
Not sure if it’s considered true anime, but Castlevania on Netflix was excellent.
Hand farts, via practice.
Hand sanitizer really opens up avenues for expression.
I feel both attacked and validated.
Same. The original movie didn’t really grab me. SAC was entertaining enough. Just kind of fell of my radar after awhile.
I can’t say for certain, but it’s probably one of these.
I’m not all that fond of seafood either. My preference for Lurelin is mostly a vibe thing. That crystal clear water in the inlet calls to me something fierce. And when I want to stock up on cheese, I can just hop on a boat and make for Hateno Bay.
sigh A man can dream. 😞
I’d have to learn how to appreciate body hair, as well as get better at dart tossing. Could be worse.
Y’all sleeping on Lurelin Village.
Bad things happen in WCW.
The original Orange Man, if you will.
I’d say Gintama has a shot at taking over as my longest-running watched series though.
That’s where I’m at right now. My spouse and I started watching on a whim and it wasn’t long before we were hooked. Blazed through the first two(?) seasons and then somewhere after episode 100 things just started dragging. I forget exactly where we’re at right now because we only watch an episode every so often lately. Could be just us getting burned out, who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You know what this feature is really useful for? Seeing who upvotes spammers to preemptively block them. Admittedly, I haven’t had much of a use for that aspect since kbin.social died, but it was neat while it lasted.
If it’s trying to tell people that CNN is center-left, who knows wtf else is questionable (or outright wrong).
Big Toothbrush won’t stop until we all have a different brush for every surface.
I’m a part of some really small communities (like single digit posts per month). Some of those posts are even mine. I wouldn’t say that’s MVP level, but…