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Some days you just have to break away from the routine. This evening instead of going to church like I normally do, I snuck out and came to Martins. I’m sitting upstairs in their cafe and sipping my Strawberries and Cream from starbucks.

It’s been a long week for me. The guys have been gone so I’ve been holding down the fort. Everything went pretty well until yesterday and today.

Yesterday I had to reboot a switch, and today I had to reboot it again… I’m no networking genius, but switches shouldn’t have to be rebooted on a daily basis… The first time a user just couldn’t get an IP and you couldn’t even access the switch through the web thingy (see how non-network genius I am?) and then today I had a user who had an IP address but couldn’t receive packets! She was sending fine, but not receiving… so weird. Repairing the connection didn’t fix it, restarting didn’t fix it… had I been at ND still I would have said tough luck and called Network engineering and let her wait for them to get around to fixing her problem. Luckily restarting the switch did the trick because beyond that… I was stumped.

This afternoon I got a call from J-Mill (one of the worship leaders… way cool guy) saying that when he emailed someone outside of our domain he got an error saying that he didn’t have permission to email them! I told him to try again of course, but then 2 minutes later someone called with the same issue. Luckily I caught Ed on his cell while he was in the Houston Airport terminal and he advised me to restart the email server. So I logged in and restarted the back end server (after emailing the users to let them know what was going on)… No change when it came back up. So I went to the logs. By the GRACE OF GOD I found a Kerberos Error saying that the clock on the front end server was skewed from the back end server significantly and that’s what caused the problem. It looked like the front end server never updated for DST or something… which makes no sense, especially since we didn’t see this until now, so that’s probably not it but… I dunno. Point is I know VERY little about server management at this point, and there’s nothing more confusing in the world to me than digging through Event Logs. God totally showed me how to find it.

Aren’t techie praises the weirdest? I mean, who thanks God for helping them find something in the Event Monitor?

… Guess I do.

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