Synchronized time is often overlooked as unnecessary in a production environment, with the thought that “close” is good enough. Let me convince you that accurate, synchronized time is important, easy to setup, and easy to maintain. I’ll even show you how to setup your own hyper-accurate time source that is inexpensive and easy to setup.
It is always difficult to see things from your customer’s point of view – literally and figuratively. So after spending hours and hours on your newest web product, how do you see it through your customer’s eyes? How do you know that it is working from outside your company’s protected network? I figured out a great technique, and it’s dead easy to setup.
If I were following the premise of “A New Beginning” and setting up a new office from scratch as the Head Operations Techie, I may be the guy on the hook for setting up phones. So let’s talk about how the Operations team uses the telephone.
The first step to management, is to have an understanding of what you are responsible for managing. This is important when you are managing people, of course, but equally so when you are managing hardware. A good inventory will make sure no machine is forgotten when it comes to backups, monitoring, and every other task you will be seeing through.
