Flawless Victory

Or, I Love it When a Plan Comes Together

Today I had an opportunity to test a script I'd written a few months ago. There was a major server failure here at Hasturcom, and we needed to shut down all of the applications that communicate with the failed server.

Before I wrote this script, shutting down these apps was a tedious, error-prone manual process. Thus the script: the concept was, a few quick keystrokes, and Pow! A robot does the grunt work.

Anyway, today was the first opportunity to actually test the script, on a large scale, against a live production environment. And I'm pleased to report that it worked flawlessly.

It's the most complicated script I've written in my (admittedly brief) scripting career, so I'm pretty proud of it--especially because it works.