The Upgrade Call...

Started by deanwebb, March 28, 2019, 12:52:58 PM

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deanwebb

March 28, 2019, 12:52:58 PM
Just finished almost 4 hours of doing an upgrade call. Copying files, watching progress bars, and waiting for stuff to finish rebooting and restarting took up 3 hours and 57 minutes. Spent all of 3 minutes taking screen caps at the start and exporting settings files and then checking stuff at the end.

There are times when we are paid to be bored...
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

SimonV

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March 28, 2019, 02:05:15 PM
Quote from: deanwebb on March 28, 2019, 12:52:58 PMThere are times when we are paid to be bored...

Sounds a lot like my last job.

deanwebb

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March 28, 2019, 04:30:01 PM
Quote from: SimonV on March 28, 2019, 02:05:15 PM
Quote from: deanwebb on March 28, 2019, 12:52:58 PMThere are times when we are paid to be bored...

Sounds a lot like my last job.

Sounds like that may be a reason why that was your last job. :smug:
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

Dieselboy

#3
March 29, 2019, 12:25:52 AM
Quote from: deanwebb on March 28, 2019, 12:52:58 PM
Just finished almost 4 hours of doing an upgrade call. Copying files, watching progress bars, and waiting for stuff to finish rebooting and restarting took up 3 hours and 57 minutes. Spent all of 3 minutes taking screen caps at the start and exporting settings files and then checking stuff at the end.

There are times when we are paid to be bored...

Do what I do, do it at the weekend and while you're waiting:
* Play old records on the sound system and enjoy the ambience
* Research stuff online
* Drink Earl Grey tea
* Dust and vacuum your study
* File your tax return

Actually, it would be nice to have a tool that sends an alert when the system is finished and ready. When I was doing Cisco CUCM updates, it emails you once it's finished which is handy.
ps. I don't get paid overtime so it was my time anyway.

deanwebb

#4
March 29, 2019, 09:52:07 AM
Definitely knowing how to manage those long stretches between clicking "OK" to start the upgrade and when it's finally 100% complete is a soft skill every IT person, not just networkers, needs to develop.

If you expect all action all the time, you will burn out on the first reboot that takes longer than 5 minutes to complete...
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

icecream-guy

#5
March 29, 2019, 10:46:56 AM
 :rage:

I'm paying you HOW MUCH  for architecture service and you are doing what ??


Then you be like...
:steamtroll:
:professorcat:

My Moral Fibers have been cut.

deanwebb

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March 29, 2019, 10:54:47 AM
Quote from: ristau5741 on March 29, 2019, 10:46:56 AM
:rage:

I'm paying you HOW MUCH  for architecture service and you are doing what ??


Then you be like...
:steamtroll:


Hey man, I'm on the line *just in case*, right? I'm your insurance policy. :smug:
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

Dieselboy

#7
March 31, 2019, 09:58:22 AM
 :XD: :XD:
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