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The Environment Of The Asset Management System

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My part in this program was to take the data that was just queued from the database and stored in a variable and check to see the status of the device. If it was “in use”, it was look at the other columns in the table to see if it was assigned to a student or staff member and at what building they are located at. If they were a staff member it was to move the Chromebook to the staff OU in the correct building, otherwise it would move the student Chromebook into the correct grad year in the correct building. If the Chromebooks state was something else it would move it to the correct OU in the correct building. It also needed to check the name because some Chromebooks had a different name and had to go in a totally different OU. Lastly if …show more content…

When it was running we keep checking the error log file and were expecting a few data entry errors, due to typing something incorrectly, but it started to fill up more than we expected. We all were working on checking the data in the asset management system and in Google to see why the errors were coming up. The Chromebook’s data was correct in the asset manager but not moving the device in Google. Once it was done there was almost a thousand errors that we were not expecting. We were all were working quickly to diagnose the issue because the deadline was at midnight, only a few hours away. A few hours into troubleshooting I was looking into the structure of the Google domain and found that one of the building name had an “s” after it, unlike the other buildings. We re-ran the program and all of the error went away. This whole experience was nothing like I had in school because if you are stuck you could ask the professor or the TA, but in this case, everyone on the team did not know the answer but was looking to find one. This was one of the most impactful parts of the internship, because it showed that even the most experienced people still get stuck on problems that they don’t know the solution to. As a software developer, you are always looking to find a solution to a problem they you are given no matter how hard it is. If you don’t know something try and learning it, so they you can better

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