SSHFS on OS X

A while ago I set up sshfs on my iMac and created an Automator script for easy of use. As I had never used Automator before, I did a bit of web searching for instructions and found this blog to be really useful - thanks bhfsteve!

8 Weeks without D: Week 2

Day 6: Monday 18/11

• Research Centres & Institutes site stopped responding- Nginx webserver returning 504
• User rang my office phone at 1:52pm - unfortunately I was at lunch and then a meeting so I didn't get back tot he office until around 3pm. 
• Checked logs - no indication of what went wrong in the places I looked so did a service restart. System came back up fine and the service was restored.
• Set up nagstamon on my workstation - now seeing alerts and warnings for all systems.

Day 7: Tuesday 19/11

• F arrives at office at 9:15am: RSS feed has stopped showing on the Portfolio site. This feed comes from a main corporate site which underwent a redesign over the weekend.
• Found URL for the feed and checked it - feed is empty.
• Emailed URL of the feed to F who will follow up with relevant unit.
• Noticed Research Portfolios site was returning a 504 (10:30am)
• Again no  indication of cause in the logs
• Restarted service - all good now.

Day 8-10: 20-22/11

• No disasters! 
• All quiet on the western front.

8 weeks without D: Week 1

Okay, so the main developer/sys administrator, D, is away for 8 weeks - and we get to mind the shop without him. He left us lots of instructions and assured us we would be fine. Us - well there are two of us (me and J), except one of us (J) will be also away for four of those weeks. So for four weeks it will just be me...

So I thought I'd keep track of any issues that occurred while D was away so I can report accurately when he returns.