Today went OK. Had a little interesting experience with one of the servers though. One of the domain controllers was complaining about replication to the other controller for the domain, which does nothing but serve as a DC so isn't in NetSaint. Turns out it's not responding on the network at all. I figure it's probably crashed and just head to the server room to go check the network cable and probably reboot it. The problem is it wasn't where I had put it in the server room, and I couldn't find it anywhere. It was apparently still sending out broadcasts occationally so I knew it had to be somewhere, so tracked it down to the switch port and then followed the patch cable to the machine. Turns out it had been moved to another rack at some point and the label pointed at the wall... Oh well, after the normal work hours I managed to get myself scheduled to do two outages in the same night. One involved the "maintenance" of a certain server. In other words we moved it between sites without telling anyone we were doing it (there's plenty of bandwidth between sites, but any and all slowness for the next year will be blamed on moving it if we had said what was happening). The fun part of that one was I couldn't find any of the collapsable carts anywhere and none of the other ones would even close to fit in my car (actually I'm pretty sure Dave and I fit the green one in there once - we also brought 3 17" monitors on that trip as well, that was fun...). So I just figured I'd carry the server. The problem is it's rather bulky and awkward so I had to carry it by about the first inch of my fingers. It also is pretty solid and lots of metal compartments because everything's hot-swap. In other words there's not much air space in there so it's really heavy (empty weight is listed as 80lbs, and we have drives in it - not sure exactly but it's definitely quite a bit heavier than some audio power amps I have that weigh 80 pounds)... So the trip to my car wasn't bad at all, only like 50ft and slide it into the back seat. Of course once I got to the main campus I had to carry it from the west lot in to the AC building. That's quite a bit farther, and my fingers were rather sore by the end of it, but for some reason to top it all off I had to put it on the top shelf of a rack which involved lifting it over my head. Probably should have been questioning my sanity there... After that one was all settled in I got to deal with Avalon. Apparently sometime while I was doing that it managed to recover and the console was usable, but I decided to reboot to try and fix the Mac problem anyways. It took pretty much exactly an hour to flush the disk caches and reboot. I'm still not sure what's going on there. It still doesn't show up either, but at least it's rebuilding the RAID of the "bad" drive now. It's sorta acting like another server, and even giving SMART errors. Seeing as we only see these errors with this controller config and it's happening on multiple machines though, I'm still guessing firmware. We'll see what happens there. Tomorrow night I think I'm gonna try and and actually finish my screen. Maybe I can finish up before Home Depot is closed and can actually get parts. Maybe even see about getting a cheap burner while I'm out shopping...