2009/3/30 Dan McGinn-Combs <[email protected]>: > In my limited experience, people, sysadmins and developer alike, remember > virtual machines. Especially when they require someone to turn them on or eat > developer workstation resources. > Dan
I wasn't thinking virtual I was thinking real ones where one gets put under a desk or in a spare bit of rack and then forgotten about. Being a server it would never be shutdown or rebooted so would just run and run. Robin > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robin Wood <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 5:19 AM > To: PaulDotCom Mailing List <[email protected]> > Subject: [Pauldotcom] orphaned machines > > Hi > In one of the last couple of episodes Larry mentioned machines which > were orphaned when people left a company, my immediate thought was > along a different track to what was discussed so I thought I'd mention > it. > > What about temporary machines which are setup by sys-admins for > specific jobs or departments when the sys-admin leaves. Maybe a > developer needed a server with a specific version of mysql on it to > test a bug, the machine gets put on the network as a temporary thing > but then the sys-admin who does it leaves and the developer finishes > his testing and forgets about it. I can think of quite a few scenarios > where pet projects or temporary machines are forgotten about or lost > when someone leaves. > > I supposed one solution to this is to make sure that every machine > that gets added to a network is logged but in reality I think people > are likely to be lazy and for short term installations bypass the > paperwork. An alternative is to scan the network regularly and pick up > any machines which are new or not in an approved list and have them > checked out. The problem with this is that once the machine is vouched > for once it becomes a recognised part of the network so wouldn't be > picked up as an anomaly. > > So, that was my thought when orphaned machines were mentioned. > > Robin > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
