[149896] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: time sink 42
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Thu Feb 16 17:22:42 2012
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:21:42 -0600
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Once upon a time, Bryan Irvine <sparctacus@gmail.com> said:
> And watch for the removable faceplates. We've been bitten before
> after a server move by rebooting a server that had the correct label
> but the wrong faceplate. Now we label the faceplate as well as
> underneath of it too. :-)
Not just faceplates; we got a couple of racks of used Dell servers and
were rolling through testing them when we discovered a couple where the
Dell tag on the lid didn't match the firmware. The tag on the back did;
at some point, somebody had switched lids on the cases!
--
Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
