Interview for application support specialist. I love acronyms! What an A.S.S.! we wanted Imaging and App Support Specialist from Im an ASS as the title. No go. Damn.
zoned out 2 new storage arrays for access by 6 servers on a Cisco MDS 9509. Lovely. In the GUI. Taking notes so I can train someone else on how to do it. Usually, I just console in and paste a script with the pieces and parts. Give each device an alias. make sure you have a convention since most of the HBA's are duals. We do server name P0 and P1 for servers. The storage arrays have lots more ports and controllers. We use XIO so the "friendly" names look like Xio2MRC1P1 and Xio2MRC2P5. MRC has ports 1-4, MRC has ports 5-8. We only patch port 1&5 for now. Create the zone. and the zones to the zoneset, activate. wait for the zoneset to update. listen for screaming. nothing, good. scan for hosts on the arrays. done! well, not really, but done enough for now.
install Cisco ISE on 3 VMs from item 2. ISE on ISE. yeah. now talk to your group about it. I've gotta work on the ISE. what? the arrays are down? What? the policy engines are messed up? Confusing! And I love Cisco, but they need to kick whoever is keeping them from officially support VMWare 5.x on their applications. Unreal.
Provide documentation to a reseller/implementer for wireless IP schemes. Spreadsheets. eye bleed. Making sure you have enough IPs to scale from 150 to 4000 nodes at a campus is fun. Do you break it up? what if the require layer 3 mobility. Not like users walk-around or anything. Do you anchor? do you do something else. choices! This outta make tomorrow a good conversation with the reseller.
End of year budgeting! We should have a few bucks to roll back to the general fund. yay my team. I just click ok on order approvals. Or not. Deny is a good one too!
Then people. Dealing with the human side of the job. We are emotional beasts. This is actual the most time consuming part of the job. People need. period. they just need. Need you. Need backing. Need a pat on the back. Need an ear. Need a moment of your time. Need feedback. Need guidance. Need. None of these things are bad. Some need more than others, but all people have their needs. This is the part of the job that I continue to learn. Simple visits with everyone. Actually listening to them talk about their problems (and as a tech person this is hard. just listening. give me a problem, i'll solve it. Not always what folks are looking for!).
And that's a day without meetings! I'll doc one of those up some day.
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