Re: [SAGE] Strategies for taking ownership of existing infrastructure?

[Jesús Couto <jesus.couto@gmail.com>]

Thanks to all of you for your answers, which surely will take me some
time to consolidate :-)

Some more info about the enviroment, as requested...

- Telecom company. Dept. deals with support  of applications related
to billing, inventory of assets and tracking of orders (like, client X
wants ADSL, he lives in address Y so this relates to equipment Z...)
- ~ 40 - 50 machines (the fact I'm not sure is another indicator...).
- OS: HP-UX has the most critical apps, but it would be something like
50% HP-UX hosts, 50% Solaris, with some Linux machines around in some
hidden corners.
- Apps are either commercial software specific to the task (we have
people in charge of each) & web apps in Java (using iplanet as the app
server) developed by some other department (and guess, no, they dont
use version control...). Heavy use of Oracle (we have a DBA around but
he has been here... 2 weeks, so its like we are all on the same boat).
- Backups are part of my main responsability, and headaches... using
NetBackup and DataProtector, and having errors almost all days.
- There is some monitoring in place, via scripts. In fact, one of the
pains is the monitoring. 600 messages just today in the morning. There
is a project to move to OpenView, but who knows when.

I'll let you know how it goes once I start doing something about this
with your recommendations.

Thanks again!

Jesús Couto