Kategoria: syslog

Hardware upgrade completed! Today, I swapped out the older FortiGate 80E for a brand new 70G at my client’s. It wasn’t just a physical replacement – I took the opportunity to completely rebuild and optimize the configuration from scratch rather than just migrating the old one. The performance jump with the new ASIC architecture is…

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Sometimes, IT administration feels more like being a watchmaker. Today’s patient is a very old Tandberg StorageLoader tape library that has decided to act up again. Because of its age, the mechanism is failing, and every so often, a tape gets completely jammed inside the drive. There is no software fix for this. The only…

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The entire migration to the new building went smoothly, although it definitely cost us two solid all-nighters to get everything across the finish line. Moving physical hardware is only half the battle. Taking advantage of the extended maintenance window, we finally had the downtime needed to clean up some lingering technical debt. We successfully overhauled…

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Sometimes, being an IT administrator means giving up your weekend for the greater good of the network. This weekend’s mission? Physically relocating a client’s entire server room to the building right next door. While moving across the parking lot might sound easy on paper, lifting, racking, and repatching an entire IT infrastructure within a tight…

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Let’s take a little trip down memory lane today. I was recently looking through some old project files and found these photos from a fantastic gig: prepping the IT infrastructure for the Theatrical Music Awards at a prominent theater in Warsaw. When IT meets live entertainment, the stakes are always high. Our primary mission for…

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Another day, another network transformation! Today’s mission took me to a client’s warehouse facility where they actively service payment terminals and ATMs.                   The primary goal of the day was to finally retire their old, faithful Cisco ASA. In its place, I deployed a robust High Availability…

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Let’s settle a debate based on these photos: who is worse to live with – an aquarist tinkering with a fish tank every weekend, or an IT admin upgrading a server rack on weekdays? Why choose one nightmare when you can have both in one person? Welcome to my girlfriend’s nightmare.

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Who said you can’t fit a massive 80Ah battery into a tiny desktop UPS? Okay, well, technically it doesn’t fit inside, but who cares about minor details like „physical dimensions” or „manufacturer specifications”? Today, I decided to see what happens when you introduce a humble CyberPower Value Pro 1000VA to an absolute unit of a…

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Every network administrator has that one specific nightmare. You open a cabinet expecting a standard patch panel, and instead, you are greeted by an analog telephony distribution frame that looks like it remembers the early Brezhnev era. This is exactly what we are dealing with at a client’s site—a functioning hospital, no less. There is…

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One of the absolute biggest drawbacks of having a server rack in your house is the notorious combination of constant overheating and jet-engine noise levels. Today, I decided to tackle both of these problems in one fell swoop. Standard rack fans just weren’t cutting it, so I brought out the heavy artillery: I mounted two…

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