Day One Hundred 'n' Sixty Two

Is it only day 162?

Not much has happened. Wrote off to 4 Citrix installers to get them to quote for our Uber-grade. Had site visits to get a decent Extricom wireless system installed. Plan to move half the place's work on to a new 1.5TB volume over easter. Made a database for senior people (management, not old biddies). Went on to the new site to look at scaffolding and half built walls. Trained a teacher on Final Cut Express.

Day One Hundred 'n' Fifty Three

Big Citrix tender document - written.

Citrix suppliers - listed.

Wireless suppliers - listed and quoting.

New technician - coming back Monday.

LEA network man - installing new topology in 2 weeks for gigabit fun.

Improvement database shown to SMT - done and loving it.

Bosh.

Day One Hundred 'n' Forty Nine

It's all gone wrong 3 times this week. After some log analysis it was tracked down to a problem with DNS. I had to resort to contacting the company that supplied the 3 servers which have a DNS role as, surprise surprise, The Last Guy had not properly documented how these were set up. The theory was that we have 1 server in charge of DNS, a second one to take over if the first one dies, and a 3rd which was retired. In reality we have 1 in charge, a second running, but no computers are set to look to it should the first one break, and a 3rd one that is fully running and not retired at all. So, all our servers and each DNS server itself is now set to look to the main server 1st, then the secondary one second, and the crap 3rd one as a last resort.

The problem seems to get kicked off at around 8:40 ish for no apparent reason. We'll see what happens tomorrow, but it's entirely rubbish when it does go wrong as no one can get on the computers.

Budget concerns seem to be being addressed and it looks like we may have money next year for most of what we want to do.

The New Technician should be returning to work under some strict rules (once bitten, twice shy)