Archived Nightmare IT job -- prior Sysadmin ignored 25 THOUSAND patches, among other sins (theregister.co.uk)
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Archived Nightmare IT job -- prior Sysadmin ignored 25 THOUSAND patches, among other sins (theregister.co.uk)
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[–] arrggg 0 points 21 points 21 points (+21|-0) ago
That consultant was an idiot.
Charged in and turned on updates and started rebooting old servers without warning anyone. Actually said "trusted windows to do its thing" before rebooting an ancient pc... Didn't mention backups once until something bad happened. I bet he did all this during working hours too.
[–] Terkala 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Could not agree more.
Day 1, you check backups, reconfigure them if you have to. Once that's done, you're allowed to look at other things.
With the kind of money they had, he should have instead written up a proposal asking for either a big increase in budget, or a consulting team to come in and fix that mess. Nobody likes it when the new guy comes in and says "we can't do X task with Y resources, give me more resources. But if you can reason your argument, and pull it off, you look like the guy who just removed a hidden minefield.
This guy went "minefields? What are those? Boom. Boom. Boom. Not my fault!"
[–] Waspocracy 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Agreed. My company is notoriously bad for poor communication. Our IT hardware department decided to update various computers and it crashed the entire business for about 2 hours because the updates affected software that was being used.
What did they learn from this? Nothing, it happened again two weeks later.
My point is that sometimes sysadmins don't update for a reason.