The Spoilsport of '0'

"0" for which all Indians are proud of . Looks like we have much more affection towards 0 than ever before.
Illustrating a true incident.

I was in implementation team in one of my projects. There was a cluster installation of a product. Even though we crossed deadline due to sizing reasons, we were able to complete installation on first server [primary server] and remote database making it more complex. Key point was this was not been performed by anyone among us , so there was space for confusion & doubts. It was a great relief to see this complex architecture installation getting completed in primary server , there by creating creating database. With more than 18hrs spend in cordinating with different teams to make storage , server ,os, cluster ready, I thought of completing second installation too. But we were stuck with error .
"Secondary server is unable to find the primary server ".

• I started debugging
• Windows team started debugging
• Case was logged with OEM

And no need to say all pressure on team

For two weeks I & OEM was behind finding this root cause. Finally it has come to my notice that the hostname with which primary server was configured & the name published in DNS were different. The configured hostname violated naming conventions of company , so we had to redo installation again.

Instead of naming server as SYSTEM"O"1, Windows team by mistake configured it as SYSTEM"zero"1. But both looks same at first sight in system; SYSTEMO1=SYSTEM01 .

This remembered me of the story of spacing of "," taking a mans life.

"0" can make our life miserable this much.