>>But I am sure we will be really paying for this for months/years to come as this stuff dies early and in weird ways.**** Yes.
>>Yea, funds are wide open now. Yes, but now the number will be worse than before. * * *ASB**http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Kennedy, Jim <[email protected]>wrote: > Amazingly everything is running. So far only one hard drive out of an > array is bad. But I am sure we will be really paying for this for > months/years to come as this stuff dies early and in weird ways.**** > > ** ** > > Yea, funds are wide open now. I have been on them for two years about this > system. It is a brand new building and the HVAC/Emergency power has never > been right. This is the third or fourth time this has happened. But in the > past they were minor events like you describe. We were hear and were able > to minimize the damage.**** > > **** > > I think it went better this time because my boss is on vacation. He is a > great guy but he won’t get out the clue by four as often as he should. Nor > will he hit them with it as hard as he should. Since he is gone my > immediate supervisor is the man that runs the district…of course I had to > contact him directly to let him know we were going down hard.**** > > ** ** > > I explained the history in a very firm but professional manner. He has > already directed operations to do it my way.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Sean Martin [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, October 18, 2012 4:43 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Otish Server room disaster.**** > > ** ** > > Wow, I've dealt with heat issues before but always in a scenario when > we've been able to react within a couple of hours and avoid massive > outages. Sounds like this is one of those unfortunate wake calls that > magically releases the funds to build in the appropriate level of > monitoring and redundancy. Hopefully you were able to recover most of the > systems?**** > > **** > > - Sean**** > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Kennedy, Jim < > [email protected]> wrote:**** > > 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] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
