On 05/15/2018 08:12 PM, Zach Villers wrote:
>
> Not what folks are asking, but you can pick up a lot just by hanging out and 
> watching the on-call person mutter to themselves in IRC ( not sure that is 
> the right phrase umm... ) I don't know if this will translate for everyone, 
> but there is a concept of "rubber duck" problem solving, where if you have a 
> particularly difficult issue, and you explain it to someone, it helps you 
> solve the problem more easily. I don't know if this is how everyone works and 
> it really doesn't help if someone is jumping up and down and quacking while 
> your are trying to think. I guess my point is, just hanging out unobtrusively 
> when you can is fairly helpful all around.

Yeah! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

But yes, we already do talk about what we are doing and whats going
wrong and what the fix might be in IRC. Everyone welcome to watch/ask
questions.

> If I recall, alerts are pretty easily accessible. You can poke around on 
> Nagios if there are issues. Obviously if everything is down/red, it's not a 
> good time to ask for help with your ssh access.

Indeed. Yep. Nagios is pretty available to all.

I can try and make sure I note exactly what I am doing to clear an
alert... sometimes I am bad about saying "fixing that" or "poking that"
without saying what exactly is going on.
> 
> A couple ideas; 
> 
>     - stream your terminal session when working an outage ( could be hard to 
> find a 100% foss version that is secure )

Yeah. ;( There are things like tmux that might make this possible.
However, we do want to make sure someone else cannot take control of our
sessions. :)

I did look for some screencast type software for command line a while
back and was disappointed that all of them needed some non free or
website to view/decode. ;( I guess there is always 'typescript'

>     - plan some outages in stage for apprentices to work at some time when 
> tickets are low and nothing urgent is planned ( I don't know that I've ever 
> heard of such a time, but in theory it could exist )

Ha. Yeah, thats a nice idea.

One thing I would very much like to do is move all the *stg* services to
a noc01.stg instance that doesn't page, just irc and non urgent email.
Once thats seperate we could indeed try and run some alerts. :)

> 
> Of course, it's late here, so this may all turn out to be nonsense, but good 
> discussion anyway.

No no, it was great.

I think discussing this is good... and hopefully we can get folks more
involved (however that happens).

kevin


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