RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

From: Jack C. Applewhite <japplewhite_at_inetprofit.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:32:10 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00399845.20010926100527@fatcity.com>

Me
too.  We've got our 4 Production Win2k servers (2 Oracle8i servers, 2 Webservers) at a colocation facility and have used either PCAnywhere or Terminal Services to access them over the Internet for the last 9 months.
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The
developers have never needed to have access to the servers except to put in the Cold Fusion CD to install CF Server.  I've only needed access once, to load some big files that I later imported into a test db on one of the servers (actually, that's when I put in the CF CD, to save the developers a trip).  Even then, I really didn't need to be there, I could have transferred my files via PCAnywhere.
 
If I
were the SysAdmin I would have needed access a couple of times to replace failed drives, but the colocation guys took care of that.  I recovered our Production db remotely after they replaced the drives.
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It's
very nice to be able to PCAnywhere in to those boxes from home.
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--------------------------------Jack C. 

ApplewhiteDatabase Administrator/DeveloperOCP Oracle8 DBAiNetProfit, Inc.Austin,
Texaswww.iNetProfit.comjapplewhite_at_inetprofit.com(512)327-9068

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  size=2>-----Original Message-----From: root_at_fatcity.com   [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Kimberly SmithSent:   Wednesday, September 26, 2001 11:15 AMTo: Multiple recipients of   list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Physical access to servers for   maintenance
  You
  can use a tool such as ControlIT to connect to NT machines.  Its how I do   it, both from the office,
  and
  from home.  How do all these people who claim you need access to the   server room to do the
  day
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  a
  database issue.  Received on Wed Sep 26 2001 - 12:32:10 CDT