• Markus (12/29/2014)


    Years ago we had construction going on to update our UPS and power for our Data Center. One business day our entire Data Center went down. Come to find out a painter accidentally hit the emergency power off button for the Data Center. It took us about 4 hours to get everythign back up and running. The week after that a box was put over the Emergency Power button to avoid accidental power downs. ...

    Same thing happened to us, only in our case it was the halon discharge button that was positioned just right to be hit by the opening computer room door. It, too, was by a clear acrylic cover. Fortunately when the computer room manager accidentally hit it he was able to hit the abort before it discharged.

    When I was at the police department we had a pretty impressive backup: a room that had two walls lined with lead acid batteries that were about 2' tall and about 18x12" wide and deep. The techs tested them with a hygrometer faithfully. I think it was over a summer weekend that we had a big storm and lost the mains, a short time later they found out that after the last time that the generator was serviced that it hadn't been switched back in to the circuit, and the entire data center went dark.

    That was not a good day.

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