Swordie Bloggie

My whole week was occupied with assisting other colleagues with the accounting system… on going system development discussions… and setting up 2 servers… what a week…

Last week I said I needed to setup 3 servers but then decided for 1 server only… well, on that week, decided to order a new smaller server… still Xeon but smaller… HP DL140 G3… I don’t want to waste the HP DL380 G5.

The DL380 has 8 hard disk slot and 2U thick… the Dl140 has 2 hard disk and 1U thick.

It arrived this week… when I wanted to set it up… things turn ugly… no CD drive… damm… how the heck I’m going to install the Windows 2003 Server?… then it turn uglier… the supplier said it will take… 10 bloody days to get the slim height CD drive!!! Actually, I can use external CD drive to do the installations… but decided not to do it… 😛

I decided to use one of the XP machine as a temporary License Manger for the ESRI GIS apps… which turn OK and work fine 😀 but of course not recommended for long run.

Then setting up the server with the real ESRI GIS server apps…. Windows 2003 Server + ESRI… manage to complete the Windows 2003 Server setup by Thursday… then, when installing the ESRI… then only I realized I’ve installed the 32bit Windows 2003 Server instead of 64bit… shooott… It’s like putting a kancil spark-plug into Farrari!… But decide to continue with the ESRI installation anyway… This one also did not work smoothly… got ‘bells’ here and there… but what the heck… I’m going to re-do the whole server again anyway.

Completed the ESRI installation by lunch time…

I need to setup 3 servers this week. But after further analysis, I may only need 1 server because I don’t want to waste the Xeon servers. I will use it for the real stuff later. I need a new license manager server for some of the engineering applications. So, it’s going to be busy week for me… and it might spill over till next week. Then have to go outstations to fix other stuff too… 😛 I hope I can start doing it tomorrow, but at the same time there will be a system discussion tomorrow… important system… 😛