[52859] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The power of water
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Ehlke)
Sun Oct 20 17:50:06 2002
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 16:50:19 -0500
From: Pete Ehlke <pde+nanog@ehlke.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 01:22:50PM -0400, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
>
> I've had to deal with assorted water problems, thankfully not
> recently. Some lessons were learned. These water problems were
> indirectly or directly caused by firefighting.
>
> 1. When the data/comm center is on a bottom floor, consider floor drains at
> the time of installation. Might want emergency access to pumps, or even
> wet-dry shop vacs.
>
Corrolary:
If your data center is on the ground floor or in the basement, remember
that the sump pump must be on a UPS/generator protected circuit.
Not that I learned this one the hard way or anything. *cough*
-P.
