You have my sympathy, Jim. We had a similar issue but luckily the servers just shut down when their internal temp >100. We did almost the exact same thing you're planning. We put in a new A\C unit and set up a heat\humidty alarm system. It sends an alert to the Operator who then pages us and Plant Operations.
From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 4:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Otish Server room disaster. So I come in this morning and things are not well. My first thought is my DNS issues are back from yesterday. But I stay calm and decide to walk the server room first. It is the data center for the whole district. 30 servers, 6509 for all 12 building connects, associated security cameras, video system for the whole district. A lot of gear. Its 125.7 F in the room. Fire Alarm false positive last night at 10:30, that shuts down the HVAC. It is not supposed to shut down the data center but it did. Much of it thermal shut down itself. The first system to blow up was the system to page us when things go bad, no pages. My stuff cooked all night long. We were down most of the day. Sounds like we are getting a second AC with it's own generator and a separate environment monitoring system that uses cell phone to call and kills the power to the room if the temp climbs. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
