So I came into work this morning and the aircon had broken in our server room. It was like an oven in there and my boss was already shutting down servers. Two of the servers were making a stupidly loud screeching noise.
I rang around offices and let people know they would be working for an hour or so. All was back up and running after the aircon fuse was replaced and the room cooled down. Temps showed 35c when they usually are around 22c
One of the two that were screeching hosts BES and our anti-virus, this took longer to come back on (about 3 hours) in this time nonone could get email on their blackberries.
Needless to say directors and everyone in general wasnt too happy about the downtime but it did seem like 'bring a game day' at school!
Overall we only lost one DL380 but this was a test terminal services server that was on its last legs
What server temperature monitoring software do you use that gives warnings with fast increases in temperature? Free is better but dont mind paying for a product that is good.
edit - We have DL380s and DL360 mostly and one DL160 and a Poweredge 2950
I rang around offices and let people know they would be working for an hour or so. All was back up and running after the aircon fuse was replaced and the room cooled down. Temps showed 35c when they usually are around 22c
One of the two that were screeching hosts BES and our anti-virus, this took longer to come back on (about 3 hours) in this time nonone could get email on their blackberries.
Needless to say directors and everyone in general wasnt too happy about the downtime but it did seem like 'bring a game day' at school!
Overall we only lost one DL380 but this was a test terminal services server that was on its last legs
What server temperature monitoring software do you use that gives warnings with fast increases in temperature? Free is better but dont mind paying for a product that is good.
edit - We have DL380s and DL360 mostly and one DL160 and a Poweredge 2950
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