[ILUG] UPS Monitoring

[Martin List-Petersen]

Thomas Rooney wrote:
>  Had the very same thing happen to me a toaster tuck the whole network 
> down...
> as luck would have it management had put the toaster in the coms room 
> that morning
> seeing how it was "not used" for anything :-)
>

Another bit of anecdotal memories:

I worked for a telco in Denmark in the 90's, where half of the servers 
in the coms room where powered of a plug in the kitchen, which was 
besides the coms room. Not that that was bad enough, but as clockwork, 
the modem pool would go down (including 2 or 3 servers) every morning at 
6pm +-5 minutes. When I arrived in the office 3 hours later (which is 
the drive it took me to get to work), everything would be fine. This 
would happen every day beyond sundays. Socket was actually taped to the 
wall with Duck-tape :p (Boss was too cheap to get an electrician in to 
rewire the server-room to get the extra power).

After about a week, I decided to stay at work overnight and watch that 
socket. End of the story: at 6pm the cleaning lady would come into the 
kitchen, remove the Duck tape, remove the plug, plug the vacuum cleaner 
in, vacuum the floor outside the kitchen, come back, plug the plug back 
in and put the Duck tape back in place.

Kind regards,
Martin List-Petersen
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