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orphaned machines
From: dgcombs at gmail.com (Dan McGinn-Combs)
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:12:40 -0400
In my limited experience, people, sysadmins and developer alike, remember virtual machines. Especially when they require someone to turn them on or eat developer workstation resources. Dan -----Original Message----- From: Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 5:19 AM To: PaulDotCom Mailing List <pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com> Subject: [Pauldotcom] orphaned machines Hi In one of the last couple of episodes Larry mentioned machines which were orphaned when people left a company, my immediate thought was along a different track to what was discussed so I thought I'd mention it. What about temporary machines which are setup by sys-admins for specific jobs or departments when the sys-admin leaves. Maybe a developer needed a server with a specific version of mysql on it to test a bug, the machine gets put on the network as a temporary thing but then the sys-admin who does it leaves and the developer finishes his testing and forgets about it. I can think of quite a few scenarios where pet projects or temporary machines are forgotten about or lost when someone leaves. I supposed one solution to this is to make sure that every machine that gets added to a network is logged but in reality I think people are likely to be lazy and for short term installations bypass the paperwork. An alternative is to scan the network regularly and pick up any machines which are new or not in an approved list and have them checked out. The problem with this is that once the machine is vouched for once it becomes a recognised part of the network so wouldn't be picked up as an anomaly. So, that was my thought when orphaned machines were mentioned. Robin _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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- orphaned machines Dan McGinn-Combs (Mar 30)
- orphaned machines Robin Wood (Mar 30)
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- orphaned machines Pat Moloney (Mar 30)
- orphaned machines Vincent Lape (Mar 30)
- orphaned machines Pat Moloney (Mar 30)
- orphaned machines Robin Wood (Mar 30)
- orphaned machines Jack Daniel (Mar 30)
- orphaned machines Robin Wood (Mar 30)
- orphaned machines Jack Daniel (Mar 30)
- orphaned machines Vincent Lape (Mar 30)
- orphaned machines Robin Wood (Mar 30)