The server room

DONE

2009-04-10T03:03:00.000-07:00

The place is looking great and we have gotten heaps done, I guess a whole bunch of teachers will be pissed off (especially Tim) because Their computer arangments have changed but they can all get over it.
Here is a whole bunch of photos:

Day 3 in summary, (this involves the cops)

2009-04-08T03:36:00.000-07:00

Today we did varius work and the place was looking all messy like this:
And as you can see it looks like the place has been vandalised so some people looked in the window today and saw us walking so they went "OMFG, some teens are moving some computers around a school when no-one is there, they must be stealing all that stuff" so they called the police, now of course being a primary school you want to make sure the place is secure so they sent 4 uniformed officers and a few detectives to come find us. after 10 Minutes of giving details and explaning stuff they called Michael Otway and the issue was resolved.

That's the police bit done so TIMS ROOM, it started off as this:

Now it is:

Day 2 in summary

2009-04-07T04:51:00.000-07:00

Today was yet another WOW day, after crawling under the school in the morning to string up a network cable, we decided to fix up the network Hub's in Tim's room. This would seem like nothing bug but we found out that this:
Two network hubs (both very noisy and dead looking) siting on a milk crate, were feeding "netwrkie goodness" to over half the school, a very big WTF moment. and if that's not bad enought wait until you find out that at MPS all the sokets in one end of the school have a number above them and that each number coresponds to a number on the patch board, except no one wrote down "oh by the way number 24 acctually feeds to a hub that powers over half the school, so we spent half a day scratching our heads while saying "which cable is the uplink on" (as this school doesn't actually label anything". oh well, now we have gutted the computers on Rebecca's room and are now re-stringing it all. for an idead of what it currently looks like:
IT work isn't easy, and not only that I have to start trackin finances to do with IT and stuff, god I hope some of the Wonderfully awesome people at school council decide that we need a budget (as I'm allready $100 out of pocket), looking at you Rachel and Gil.

Day 1, in summary

2009-04-05T01:44:00.000-07:00

Well today was an AMAZING day, we got so much done.

The prep room started off as this:

And ended up like this:

And then we decided to re-do the server cabinet in Mrs. Storey's room, originaly it was so noisey you could hear it from the prep room. Now I think the teracher will think it's switched off as it doesn't make any noise. brilliant.

Before

2009-04-04T17:32:00.000-07:00

here is a bunch of photos of the current state of the school, most of which we will be cleaning up. Enjoy.

Tommorow

2009-04-04T04:18:00.000-07:00

Tommorow we will be doing the following:

Morning:

Cleaen up the server room, as it is a pig sty
start cutting holes in the walls for networ cables (yes wendy only little holes, and we know about the asbestos)
and lock our friend in the prep room until he can get the STUPID acers to update the BIOS

Afternoon:

Gut out ALL the server cabinets
get all the PC's in one room (except for the Library)
sort through 'em'
And at some point fix up the images

Anything else? or is that about it. I'll keep ppl. updated throughout the Day with photos 'n' stuff.

Welcome

2009-04-01T23:23:00.000-07:00

this is "the server room" a blog on what we are doing at Montmorency PS re-developing their LAN,
this will either be a comedy or a diary (hopefully both). I hope you enjoy this and heres what we've done so far:

unplugged the main school server (without realising for like 5 Mins.)
Bought down the whole internet connection for the schoo

Oh and we also did some good stuff like:

Create users for the upper levels at MPS
fix up the File shares (there was no security)
and set up a fog server (read about fog)