Last Thursday is was my turn to stay late and do firmware and software updates on the server. Never takes over 2 hours and I get to go home early Friday.
So it was just me, by myself in the haunted server room, formally a bomb shelter. Well me and my anti Murphy nerf gun.
Servers check.
Switches Check.
Routers Check.
Firewalls Check.
And lastly the spam filter
10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
Function error please contact your system admin.
!!!!~!
This is not good
So I console in, and take a look around. Up until I am asked for my username and password. It accepts it then dumped me back to the login screen.
Frak, and I am hungry at this point! Double Frak!!
Ok lets call tech support.
Troubleshoot step one, connect it to the manufactures servers. Does not work.
Step 2, soft wipe. Does not work
Step 3, wipe everything- yay it works.
It comes up in factory mode and I restored the system backup it automatically made. Doesn't WORK. FRAK! FRAK! FRACK!
Fine, I reconfigure everything by hand and then update it to the latest version.
Doesn't Work. GRRR.
Tech Support again. They find that it error out on the final content update.
They try to fix it
They try to fix it
They try to fix it
Eventually its 1 am. Its the only spam filter we have. So the exchange server is getting 100% of the cheep Viagra and penor enlargement adds. Poor puppy is running hot.
They figured it out. HD 2 is failing. Not enough to trigger it as bad but its screwing crap up. So break the internal raid, and there she goes.
I get to spend the morning responding to the "OMG I have penors in my E-Mail." help desk tickets. Most of them tell the poor (L)user to refer to the global email and the IT bulletin on the company intranet homepage.
Monday rolls around. There is lots of spam. Spam everywhere. I wonder over to the spam filter. Its dead. DEAD DEAD! Like no lights no power.
FRACK.
So it was just me, by myself in the haunted server room, formally a bomb shelter. Well me and my anti Murphy nerf gun.
Servers check.
Switches Check.
Routers Check.
Firewalls Check.
And lastly the spam filter
10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
Function error please contact your system admin.
!!!!~!
This is not good
So I console in, and take a look around. Up until I am asked for my username and password. It accepts it then dumped me back to the login screen.
Frak, and I am hungry at this point! Double Frak!!
Ok lets call tech support.
Troubleshoot step one, connect it to the manufactures servers. Does not work.
Step 2, soft wipe. Does not work
Step 3, wipe everything- yay it works.
It comes up in factory mode and I restored the system backup it automatically made. Doesn't WORK. FRAK! FRAK! FRACK!
Fine, I reconfigure everything by hand and then update it to the latest version.
Doesn't Work. GRRR.
Tech Support again. They find that it error out on the final content update.
They try to fix it
They try to fix it
They try to fix it
Eventually its 1 am. Its the only spam filter we have. So the exchange server is getting 100% of the cheep Viagra and penor enlargement adds. Poor puppy is running hot.
They figured it out. HD 2 is failing. Not enough to trigger it as bad but its screwing crap up. So break the internal raid, and there she goes.
I get to spend the morning responding to the "OMG I have penors in my E-Mail." help desk tickets. Most of them tell the poor (L)user to refer to the global email and the IT bulletin on the company intranet homepage.
Monday rolls around. There is lots of spam. Spam everywhere. I wonder over to the spam filter. Its dead. DEAD DEAD! Like no lights no power.
FRACK.
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