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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 15:35:23 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@lsi.com>
To: Brian Stark <brian.stark@lsi.com>
Cc: Richard Hardiman <Richard.Hardiman@lsi.com>
Subject: problem with new lab network switches
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Hi Brian,

I got an update from Rich H. today, and it seems that our cisco switches
for the lab have been hijacked by LSI IT, best I can tell.

As far as I'm concerned, those switches belong to us, not IT, and no
way in hell should they be holding them back and tying them to other
programs they have going, like re-doing onstor's IP space.  Rich tells
me that Rich Miller isn't letting us have them and they plan on owning
those switches and not deploying them until they complete a plan
for re-IPing our whole building, lab included, as well as a few other
IT ventures they have going.

These various IT movements are completely separate from the elab
switches and I'm just really surprised that IT is trying to tie them
together.

We need those switches now-1 week.  We've already run into problems that
we could have avoided if we had deployed these switches that are
just sitting in a closet somewhere, if not actually installed in some
other location, which is something I'm starting to suspect.

I'm also told that Karen is making unhappy noises that we have yet to
install these switches that she went to great lengths to acquire for
us, so I believe she's on our side in this.

I want to make it clear to these folks that, as far as I'm concerned,
Rich H. is the "owner" of those switches and we won't be installing the
tacacs client software on them which allows anyone in LSI IT to log
into them and make lots of really helpful changes ... you get the
idea.  Any switches outside the lab, that's different, but inside the
lab, only Rich and people deemed worthy by Rich, etc., will be able to
access those switches and make config changes.

Our schedules depend on that chain of responsibility.  They're already
talking about not even having a plan to present to us until January,
never mind a deployment date.

Thanks,

a
