02-14-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by supadid
The only problem with my workplace is that it is quiet, very quiet, there is not all that much work to do, the only time i get to really do some practical work with our systems (10 in total) is when something goes wrong.
That's funny. I had a boss once catch me surfing the web, and when I apologized he said "Hey, I *WANT* my Unix admin to be bored. If he's not I know there's something bad going on."
Of course, surfing isn't the correct option (at least not too often), but you get the point. Your situation isn't unique at all. Many Unix jobs are like firefighting - lots of waiting around, then intense activity dealing with the bad stuff when it happens. If you have a test envirionment where you can work on servers that won't impact production do your "playing around" there. If not, at least try to scrounge up a spare PC or old server and install linux, Solaris x86, or something similar to have a box you can work on without worries.
Also, see if you can think up a project that would help the company that you can work on without touching production machines. If it is really worthwhile, you might be able to talk your boss into funding it. I have no idea what your environment is like, but here's an example of the kind of thing I'm thinking of. If you don't already have a monitoring solution to watch all your servers see if you can get them to buy you a small, cheap server to install Nagios and set up monitoring. That would teach you all about SNMP and probably a bunch of scripting as well. You could set up the Nagios server and have it monitor just a few PCs or test servers at first. Once you've proved it is working and won't hurt anything roll it out to the real servers. If that isn't applicable to you think of something else. Make it a project where you get to learn a new skill or software package, but the company benefits as well so they'll want you to do it.
Ralph
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
globus-rls-admin
globus-rls-admin(8) System Manager's Manual globus-rls-admin(8)
NAME
globus-rls-admin - Replica Location Service Administration
SYNOPSIS
globus-rls-admin -A|-a|-C option value|-c option|-D|-d|-e|-p|-q|-r|-S|-s|-t timeout|-u|-v [ rli ] [ pattern ] [ server ]
DESCRIPTION
The program globus-rls-admin performs administrative operations on a RLS server (see globus-rls-server(8)).
OPTIONS
-A Add rli to list of RLI servers updated by an LRC server using Bloom filters. Note that partitions are not supported with Bloom fil-
ters, the LRC server maintains one Bloom filter for all LFNs in its database, which is sent to all RLI servers configured to receive
Bloom filter updates with this option.
-a Add rli and optionally pattern to the list of RLI servers that the LRC server sends updates to (using a list of LFNs). If pattern
is specified then only LFNs matching it will be sent to rli. If rli is added with no patterns, then it is sent all updates. Pat-
tern matching is done using standard Unix file globbing (see fnmatch(3) or sh(1)).
-C option value
Set server option to value. Note this does not update the configuration file, the next time the server is restarted the configura-
tion change will be lost.
-c option
Retrieve configuration value for specified option from server. If option is "all" then all options are retrieved.
-D Remove rli and pattern from list of RLI servers that the RLI server sends updates to. If pattern is not specified then all entries
for rli are removed. Note if all patterns are removed separately then rli is sent all updates. To stop any updates from being sent
to rli do not specify pattern
-d Remove rli and pattern from list of RLI servers that the LRC server sends updates to. If pattern is not specified then all entries
for rli are removed. Note if all patterns are removed separately then rli is sent all updates. To stop any updates from being sent
to rli do not specify pattern
-e Clear LRC database. Removes all lfn,pfn mappings.
-p Verifies that the server is responding.
-q Cause RLS server to exit.
-r Add rli and optionally pattern to the list of RLI servers that the RLI server sends updates to. If pattern is specified then only
LFNs matching it will be sent to rli. If rli is added with no patterns, then it is sent all updates. Pattern matching is done
using standard Unix file globbing (see fnmatch(3) or sh(1)).
-S Show statistics and other information gathered by RLS server. Intended to be input into GRIS.
-s Show list of RLI servers and patterns being sent updates by the LRC server. If rli or pattern are not specified they are considered
wildcards.
-t timeout
Set timeout (in seconds) for RLS server requests. Default is 30 seconds.
-u Cause LRC server to immediately start full softstate updates to any RLI servers previously added with the -a option.
-v Show version and exit.
SEE ALSO
globus-rls-server(8), globus_rls_client man pages
23 Apr 02 globus-rls-admin(8)