RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

[Jack C. Applewhite]

Title: RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

Me too.  We've got our 4 Production Win2k servers (2 Oracle8i servers, 2 Webservers) at a colocation facility and have used either PCAnywhere or Terminal Services to access them over the Internet for the last 9 months.   The developers have never needed to have access to the servers except to put in the Cold Fusion CD to install CF Server.  I've only needed access once, to load some big files that I later imported into a test db on one of the servers (actually, that's when I put in the CF CD, to save the developers a trip).  Even then, I really didn't need to be there, I could have transferred my files via PCAnywhere.   If I were the SysAdmin I would have needed access a couple of times to replace failed drives, but the colocation guys took care of that.  I recovered our Production db remotely after they replaced the drives.   It's very nice to be able to PCAnywhere in to those boxes from home.   Jack -------------------------------- Jack C. Applewhite Database Administrator/Developer OCP Oracle8 DBA iNetProfit, Inc. Austin, Texas www.iNetProfit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (512)327-9068 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kimberly Smith Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 11:15 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance You can use a tool such as ControlIT to connect to NT machines.  Its how I do it, both from the office, and from home.  How do all these people who claim you need access to the server room to do the day to day stuff provide remote support?  I will be damned if I come in during the middle of the night for a database issue.