Not just physical things to bring with me, but other stuff as well.
What I've already included on my resume was the following line:
I’ve deployed various services onto my home server, and have experience with various game servers; Apache with virtual hosts serving multiple domains, along with concrete5 deployment; email with iRedMail; monitoring via SNMP and plugins with Nagios, cacti, and Zabbix; networking with pfsense, Smoothwall, and DD-WRT; virtualization with Virtualbox and KVM; VoIP with Mumble; backups and redundant storage with ownCloud, CrashPlan, and a RAID tower; samba file sharing; security with SELinux configuration and Fail2Ban; and bash scripting.
The phone interview that I had included me telling the HR rep more about my home server running CentOS and the Ubuntu VMs running. I went into more depth about that home server and it's services, but I didn't touch too much onto the game servers I'm running. I feel like I should go into dept on those more in a way, since it's been a pretty big part of my experience.
I've been running L4D2 and Minecraft servers that are up 24/7, and the best part revolves around Minecraft. I customized a startup script to use a RAMdisk, sync to the HDD, and backup to a .tar.gz format that I prefer. I have syncs run every hour and tar.gz backups run once a day. I don't have to take the server offline to do this, either. Not only that, but I wrote a script to convert the older Minecraft logging format into the new format so that it would work with mclogalyzer. I also have Minecraft Overviewer working with my world, and rerender the most recent map once a day.
My biggest question is whether or not I should print out some of the bash scripting that I've done and bring it with me to the interview, or maybe bring a laptop with me and execute some of the scripts instead. If I would do the latter, should I show off Nagios as well? I've got it monitoring my RAID tower, tmpfs space for Minecraft, and various other things.
Is there anything else I should do to be prepared for with this interview?
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