datacenter DC1 · on-call SRE · 02:12 AM
Your pager just went off. Six machines, a queue of incidents, and nobody else awake. Walk the floor, open serial consoles on the racks, and fix what's broken — with a real shell.
| W A S D | move (Shift to hurry) |
| Mouse | look |
| E | open console on a rack |
| T | ticket queue |
| Esc | close console / release mouse |
| M | mute hum |
In the console: help, tab-completion, ↑ history, pipes and
> redirection all work. systemctl, journalctl,
df, ps, grep, sed -i… like you mean it.
Click to grab the mouse and keep working.
queue clear · monitoring green · go get coffee
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