RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

From: Christopher Spence <cspence_at_FuelSpot.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 04:33:09 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00398CD9.20010926044518@fatcity.com>

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."

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message----- From: Koivu, Lisa
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Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001
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Subject: RE: Physical access to
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Lembark [SMTP:lembark_at_wrkhors.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:20 AM

To: Multiple recipients
of list ORACLE-L
Subject:
Re:
Physical access to servers for maintenance

-- "Smith, Ron L." <rlsmith_at_kmg.com>

> 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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Steven

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