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Trust in this order: eyes, code, users, management
24 comments- TAGS:script, servers
- IT TOPICS:Development, Management, Servers & Data Center
This pilot fish is asked to write a script to keep an eye on a server at a remote site to make sure it's up and operational.
"After working on the code, I tested it," fish says. "It said the server was down. I spoke to the management, who insisted the box was up and it must be my script."
Fish tests the script against 15 other servers. It confirms that those servers are all up and operational.
Finally, he sends a tech to the remote site to check the server. Forty-five minutes later, tech calls to confirm that the server has crashed due to overheating. No one there knows when it crashed or how long it's been down, because no one noticed or complained.
Tech quietly reboots the server and fish confirms that the script can see it now.
Sighs fish, "I guess I should believe my own coding sometimes..."
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