Re: Alternative Lesson: "Never turn anything off if..."
All happily sitting in our office on a sunny Tuesday morning and suddenly a huge bang outside , the whole building goes dark, screens off, beeping everywhere as the building UPS kicks on to save the comms room. It's the bomb, run for the shelters! Nope. One of the council's finest digger operators decided he wanted to cause untold chaos up the whole street by cutting through a stack of cables feeding several businesses. Cue 60 mins of dusting off DR plans, switching off non-eessential kit and praying the UPS holds, 4 hours later the leccy board hooked everything back up temporarily while they decided how to fix the mess properly. Took about 2 weeks of constant minor power cuts, which resulted in a few PCs going bang and countless insurance claims from the businesses in the area as old kit finally gave up the ghost after too many power blips.
None of this was in any manual we had, so we wrote our own from the experience!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
