a journey about azil

a month working alone

it's been a month, since my subs went back to his country. at first, he told me that he will back and leave me alone. and i though he was kidding since our machine is a very complicated and i still newbie in this field (os, protocol, appl). argh....

in the end of his day in jakarta he said that "Good Luck", while i said "Oh My God".
Ok, this is a triger for me. and he and my office has challanges me to get higher and higher... at first i always pray, Oh..God...please...give me a power to learn fast to understand these new thing in a fast track. while also i keep to updating my knoledge by targeting what to learn today, and what to be understand this week.
Alhamdulillah, only with a "kejepit" i learn faster than what that i already targeted.

all day to day was an easy, analysing statistic from log, watching process, making a report,
and simple tuning my system. until some thing happen, and i named it with "first test".

my "first test" was last week. at midnight of wednesday, my client call me that our system has a strange behaviour. the GUI alerting that it has something wrong. at first i answer, Oh My God... :D while i asked him, should i come? he said that "it's ok, the system has already back into normal and i doesn't have to come to DC". but at that time, i didn't believe. my feeling said that there must be something wrong. b'coz, hm... i don't know, at that time, i had a very bad feeling.
and that was true, in the morning, after back from Mushola for Shubuh, i dressed and pick my bag went to DC in Cyber Building, Kuningan. After login, and checking the log i said "Oh My God...." then i was panic at first. Calling my client supervisor was my first step, just to inform him about what's going on. Then, i check into our document about disaster recovery.
Bingo...there was no one document related with that problems.
I contact my subs in our HQ using YM!, and i call my bos just to inform there is something happen with our system. I made an escalations, b'coz i can't solve this problem. based on log file, there'was nothing wrong with our system through our applications. but the alarm alerting us that there is some unusual process. this cause our system can't make a communication with another system, smsc. as the impact, our client's partner can't also processing their's. from morning trough midnight, and goes to morning again we (me, my subs, my client, other third partner) still can't understand whats wrong with this. until 3am, we decide to take a rest first. since this trouble was sometimes clean, but sometimes happen again. argh..
then i come back to DC after lunch. again, we're still couldn't understand whats wrong with this. until one of my client enginer said that its just only a simple problem. we're having a serious discussion analyse one by one, while i also still give some data and log using email and ym! that my subs ask it for. BINGO!!! we're have one conclusions, our system has a hardware problems, ethernet problems. after i see the /var/adm/messages HAHAHA it just only hardware conflict *sigh* only hardware conflict??????? then, helped with NOC engineer, we're trace one by one who's using the same address with my machine. and finaly we found it. it was an old machine which was normally this machine shouldn't be used anymore. but, suddenly this was powered on by we're don't know who made it on. we ask one by one, but there was nobody who claim that has powered on that machine. ARGH.........................

next, i don't know.... just keep learn with the track that i've planned before. hopefully, if there is any problem, i'll made it clean in a second.