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10 AM
Engineer #2: "Hey... you wouldn't happen to know where the Blahblah server is? It's not in TV Master Control, not that I can see."
Me: "Have you tried the old server room?"
Engineer #2: "I hadn't thought of that."
So we go to the old server room and find servers and computers... mostly powered down... for things that were discontinued a decade ago. There's a big computer switch with lights still blinking, so something is that room is still working... maybe? But of the boxes still on we can't identify as the Blahblah server.
12:30 PM
Engineer #1: "Hey, you wouldn't happen to know where the Blahblah server is?"
Me: "Have you tried the old server room? Engineer #2 and I looked in there but couldn't identify which box it might be."
Engineer #1: "Old server room? Where's that? I didn't know we had an old server room."
He's been there for about a year and a half.
We go look again but we can't identify what might be the Blahblah server. We did poke around a bit and find Iomega backup drives. I find a Macbook Pro with a dead battery and can identify some Windows XP boxes... but no Blahblah server. Some of the boxes are labelled with gibberish... but no Blahblah server.
2:30 PM
Radio person: "Hey, you wouldn't happen to know where the Blahblah server is?"
Me: "Look, I know where *some* of the bodies are buried but not that one. It's probably in TV Master."
We go poking around and I eliminate one of the suspects. Eventually Engineer #2 finds some of the paperwork and actually identifies the missing server.
3:30 PM
I email my boss regaling her with the search for the long lost Blahblah server.
She emails back, "Oh, it's in this rack right behind the console... about half way up."
Yep. That's where Engineer #2 found it.
It's destined for removal and possible replacement Real Soon - which is a good thing because the spare drive is in error.
-m
Engineer #2: "Hey... you wouldn't happen to know where the Blahblah server is? It's not in TV Master Control, not that I can see."
Me: "Have you tried the old server room?"
Engineer #2: "I hadn't thought of that."
So we go to the old server room and find servers and computers... mostly powered down... for things that were discontinued a decade ago. There's a big computer switch with lights still blinking, so something is that room is still working... maybe? But of the boxes still on we can't identify as the Blahblah server.
12:30 PM
Engineer #1: "Hey, you wouldn't happen to know where the Blahblah server is?"
Me: "Have you tried the old server room? Engineer #2 and I looked in there but couldn't identify which box it might be."
Engineer #1: "Old server room? Where's that? I didn't know we had an old server room."
He's been there for about a year and a half.
We go look again but we can't identify what might be the Blahblah server. We did poke around a bit and find Iomega backup drives. I find a Macbook Pro with a dead battery and can identify some Windows XP boxes... but no Blahblah server. Some of the boxes are labelled with gibberish... but no Blahblah server.
2:30 PM
Radio person: "Hey, you wouldn't happen to know where the Blahblah server is?"
Me: "Look, I know where *some* of the bodies are buried but not that one. It's probably in TV Master."
We go poking around and I eliminate one of the suspects. Eventually Engineer #2 finds some of the paperwork and actually identifies the missing server.
3:30 PM
I email my boss regaling her with the search for the long lost Blahblah server.
She emails back, "Oh, it's in this rack right behind the console... about half way up."
Yep. That's where Engineer #2 found it.
It's destined for removal and possible replacement Real Soon - which is a good thing because the spare drive is in error.
-m
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Reminds me of when we had the Great Server Hunt at Uni... the I.T hub for the campus network was being migrated to a new building But there was one critical server that needed to be moved, and couldn't be duplicated because it had the only copy of some legacy software actually running on it..
Except no-one could find it, or had an idea where it was..
Eventually, after the head of comp-sci had recruited all of us to look for it, and the old I.T building had literally been emptied out of machines with still no sign of it Some bright spark had the idea of following wires and seeing what was at the end of them.
They found It was inside a cupboard that had been walled over years ago... just sitting there, quietly doing it's thing with no-one the wiser.