Waiting for people at work before I can move forward with tasks -- time to do some RHCE training

@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

One for @EddieJennings and @RojoLoco

Ha!

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Reading STIG documents for Server 2012R2.

huh - why on something so old?

Government. . .

Attending a Fedora Infrastructure meeting in IRC in about an hour.

Going to be playing some You Don't Know Jack with some friends tonight.

Password update day. The pain of retraining muscle memory is real.

RHCE exam = scheduled. August continues to be my certification month.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

You're making me miss Mangocon. I know, totally unrelated, but that's how my head works.

Yeah! No Mangocon; no peace!

Spinning up some VMs. Much practice needs to be done with using Ansible templates.

@gjacobse I invested in an Uplift desk for my apartment office. As much as I hate parting ways with my money, it was a great decision. In my opinion, anything that gets you on your feet will be worth it.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Discussing IT stuff with Mr. @EddieJennings - Been a while actually speaking with him.

Carefully vet anything that guy says.

RHCE review sessions and noting the knowledge gaps. Luckily the list of said gaps isn't too long :).

Here's to another week in the world of Windows system administration.

Fighting the good GPO fight.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Wondering how I am going to improve my response and function when certain tools are turned off across the board.

Have to GUI remote to a computer to restart a service that randomly stops when I could have used PS to remotely kick it... It's what's scripting is for, even as obtuse as I am, I know that.

There are a couple of ways of handling this with a scheduled task.

1. When the service crashes, is there an Event Log entry? If so, you can make a task to restart the service, if said log happens.

2. Write a PowerShell script that does something like

if ( (Get-Service -Name foo).Status -ne "Running" ) {
     Start-Service -Name foo
}

and have a scheduled task that runs that script at whatever your desired interval is.

Saxophone lesson, daily walk, nomz, and RHCE prep / video recording: in that order.

RHCE practice exam. Then a break and more practice -- focusing on Ansible roles today.

Updating template VMs.

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

About to be on a call with Solarwinds support.

There went 16 hours of your life

Ha! It lasted about 2 hours. Issue was "resolved" by uninstalling a module.

Listening to a talk at Fedora Nest about the Pinephone.