So first week on the new job, and making some good progress. I am learning the infrastructure and some issues that have been bothering us. We have done the following items:
- Monitoring
- Redid the Coradiant Truesight setup to better catch items and view backend information. Got visibility to additional network areas.
- Implemented Solarwinds IPMonitor. We are installing it at the colo and at our enterprise office.
- Testing Idera DM, deciding if it will work for us. We need better DB monitoring and diagnostics.
- Redid the Coradiant Truesight setup to better catch items and view backend information. Got visibility to additional network areas.
- Infrastructure planning
- Did initial grading of clustered scale up/out NAS solutions. I will post more details as the project progresses.
- Did requirements for new firewall solutions, still have yet to nail this down and grade them.
- Built plan around fixing exchange, and moving to a multi-site international infrastructure on Windows 2008 and Exchange 2007.
- Started planning a DNS revamp, and proper split domain configurations.
- Working on a new wireless implementation as we speak, using dd-wrt and integration into AD with WPA.
- Did initial grading of clustered scale up/out NAS solutions. I will post more details as the project progresses.
- Ops
- Debugged issues going on with production website.
- Reviewed and did some updates on the Akamai configuration.
- Implemented VMware environment for HP Quality Center testing, have yet to have QA fully test the buildout.
- Debugged issues going on with production website.
I learned about the platform, and the upcoming new version of the platform. We also started looking at NBA/IDS systems such at Mazu and Q1Labs. Its not high priority, but it would help a lot with security, and the ability to diagnose network issues, and non-http issues. I really wish Coradiant would view SQL response time…. One can dream.
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