travis' brain dump

Yes, for those of you who are not interested, read no further. LOL

M.O.M. or Microsoft Operations Manager can be a useful and valuable tool… when used correctly. But what good is an installation of MOM if it’s not doing anything?

With the smoke still clearing from the storm I caused at the last place I was at in followup to my post about taking pride in your job, I have found myself looking down the barrell of a similar gun. What do these people do all day? I mean seriously.

I come into this place with a few tasks… work on the event’s management software and MOM. Those are my two tasks. What do I find? No mails being sent from any of the monitoring software because the McAfee policy is blocking the executables from sending out mails to tell you there are problems out on your network and last but not least the MOM database server is FULL!!!!! (not to mention it is full of alerts from almost over 700 days ago too…) *sigh*

Seriously folks… Why is it people like myself have such a hard time getting jobs when we’re looking (thankfully not the case with this job I’m at right now) and yet people in these jobs are worthless. I’m not going to judge the person I’m filling in for… It appears the guy has way too much to do but allowing your monitoring server to go down in flames isn’t exactly keeping on top of your job. *shrug* Maybe it’s not on his priority list… maybe he’s a slacker… maybe there really is just too much going on for him and he can’t keep up with it.

Whatever the case may be, this is two for two people. Twice I’ve been put in front of someone’s network and twice I’ve found it’s neglected and screwed up. At least it’s something productive to do while I’m working on some permanent work. 🙂

I need to get back to the over abundance of shrinking of databases that need done here, just figured I’d rant.

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