RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

[Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130)]

Title: RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

Are you talking NT only or install in general?  On unix all you need is a

decent X-windows package for your PC (Exceed, ChameleonX, Reflection X?, etc).

 

I've been here 3 years, installed at least 30 new systems and have never

been in any of our computer rooms.

-----Original Message-----
From: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 9:05 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

OK, terminal services?

I agree that install is an exception.  It's nearly impossible if you aren't sitting in front of the host.

-----Original Message-----
From:   Christopher Spence [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Wednesday, September 26, 2001 8:45 AM
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Subject:        RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

This doesn't work for NT machines, and it with Unix you cannot install 8.1.6 without X access.
 
"Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes."

Christopher R. Spence
Oracle DBA
Phone: (978) 322-5744
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-----Original Message-----
From: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:45 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance
 
What's wrong with telnetting in? 
-----Original Message-----
From:   Steven Lembark [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:20 AM
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Subject:        Re: Physical access to servers for maintenance
 
-- "Smith, Ron L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Our hardware people are cracking sown on access to the computer room.
> They have decided the DBA group can do all their work without going to
> the server itself.  This includes Unix and NT server running both Oracle
> and SQL Server. We would have to use VNC Viewer and PC Anywhere.  I am
> trying to put together a list of things we might need to do that would
> make remote admin difficult as well as taking longer.  If you have any
> ideas I would appreciate it.
How about "Your Work"?
Last time I looked it's rather hard to run svrmgrl without access to
the command line.  So long as you don't want to start or stop the
database this probably won't have any effect.
Checking free disk space is also simpler with "df".  You can, perhaps,
memorize the nubmber of blocks on every device and compare them to the
free space reported by Oracle each morning.
Simplest method would be to say "no we don't need it now, what is the
pager number of someone we can use if we do need things done?"  Make
a point of paging them every time you need something from the shell,
day or night.  That person will, I'm sure, be happy to compile a list
of the trivial things they've been forced to do that the DBA should have
done for themselves at 3am...
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