[RKDinOKC]

Cool I got more added to my Job. We had a night IT person leave. I get to be the Computer Nightwatchman. Spend about an hour logging into various servers and make sure the jobs are all running without errors. Some job or another always needs attention, usually just closing a warning message. Beats hiring a whole nuther employee for an hour of work every night.

They gave me a Dell Lattitude Laptop all congirued with the required apps and access. I am in the process of moving all the apps to the Virtual PC on my Mac and setting up scripts on the Mac to have the Virtual PC access the servers, do the checks, close out any errors, and make a report of what it did so I don't actually have to do anything. Most of the jobs I am checking on are scripts. To bad they couldn't make the scripts at least email an attendant when a message pops up. When I did scripted jobs that ran on a mac server it watched for the different error messages and did whatever it needed resolve the problem and resumed the script.

Don't know why they try to get rid of the Mac scripts. Used to have one in the Drafting department to do all the necessary settings everywhere on the different systems to create a new part. You just entered the part number and several settings in my script and let er rip. If you created a new part manually you had to type in the part number 10 different times. They made the guys that enter new parts go back to manually entering everything when they made a change instead of letting the drafting guys update the script. Found out the other day, one of the guys has been updating the script and is still using it. He asked me how to put in a error routine to stop it if they change anything. He told me not to tell anyone because IT don't like it.

Don't even want to talk about the script we were using to manage all the literature that it took them over 8 years to replace and the drafting guys tell me it still doesn't do as much and requires them to do more to get what it does do done.

Looks to me like they are requiring a LOT of the IT jobs the company is running on to have someone monitor for warning messages that have to be dismissed. Not a day goes by that a quote or order with a warning message holds up everything else causing people to send IT Help tickets because the system is not responding. I just need to get that lifelock monitor only attitude.