Quoting Tina Bird <tbird@precision-guesswork.com>: > that ought to cause a bit of a rumpus. > > i've been tasked with giving a presentation to a group > of manager types who do not have our understanding of the > importance of staffing for log monitoring. i've got a > couple of analogies to use for them -- things like asking > how many of them balance their checkbooks or read their credit > card statements -- but figured that this group might have > an idea or two of how to convince a non-technie (or a new > sys admin) of how important this is... What convinced our staff was when we noticed an E450 flashing its 'I need maintenance' light', totally by accident. It was in a locked machine-room we don't usually go into and we had gone in to look at a different machine. Turns out that TWO of its three power supplies had died. Most embarrassingly, it had been logging this every second to syslog. For three weeks. -- Andrew Stribblehill Systems programmer, IT Service, University of Durham, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: loganalysis-unsubscribeat_private For additional commands, e-mail: loganalysis-helpat_private
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