[15848] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Building a NOC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rod Nayfield)
Mon Mar 23 17:02:17 1998
From: "Rod Nayfield" <rod@iconnet.net>
To: "Sean Donelan" <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 08:52:57 -0500
In-Reply-To: <980322233547.1565@SDG.DRA.COM>
> Pocket protectors? Slide rules? Any other items nerd/engineers carry
> in their shirt pocket that falls out when they are head-first into the
> raised floor.
We've found socks and cigarette butts. Needless to say the perp is no
longer with us :)
> Like most disasters, you may not be able to prevent flooding, but you
> can mitigate some of its affects. Hit the E.P.O. and unfurl the plastic
> tarps you have stored & handy for just this emergency.
We also put drip pans which cover the entire ceiling over the data center -
we were burnt 2 years ago in a pre-war office building in NYC. (avoid space
with wc's above!) The pans drain outside of the machine room into a
high-traffic hallway (with a drain). Any drips get noticed very quickly,
and we don't have to test the water alarm.
