How you are screwing yourself
Tonite I wanted to bring a server back online for work. However part of the problem is that the other Sysadmin where I work is the person who knows the load balancer. I have been putting off the brain dump from him so I could get some other things done. Besides, there is a web interface…what could go wrong?
Well trying to bring the server back online I accidentally bound the server to the wrong fail over sequence. No problem I will just unbind it. Except that doesn’t work. It runs. But it remains bound.
I decide, I am leet enough to ssh in to the load balancer and figure it out. Not so fast Mr. Big Head. I was unsure what I was doing. I figured out how to bind and unbind servers to virtual IPs but I couldn’t seem to figure out how to only do it for one server. Rather than take down my whole company I decided to wait till at least tomorrow to read the docs in depth and try again.
This is how you are screwing your self using web UI’s to common programs. At some point that UI will fail you, and you will have to use the CLI anyway. Why bother to learn it in the first place I say. Just learn the way where you won’t be left high and dry.
The next time you log into phpXadmin, or webmin, think twice about not learning the right way to do something.