> An installation I talked to in the past was pushing that ratio with > additional power. They were driving it that a system admin had no > business to login to a server unless there was a change or problem > ticket for it. The idea of "just looking" at something did not justify > a login. Instead, if there's a need to "just look" at that server, > there may be a justified need to look at all those servers and they > would add the item to the automation to have that data available from > all applicable servers for everyone who needed it. I found it a very > interesting approach to push that ratio. > Rob van der Heij
This is actually encouraging. This kind of discipline is what's necessary to move beyond a few dozen systems to really large-scale infrastructure. The Bell system had to make this kind of change in the early 1960's to achieve really significant uptimes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
