I just found out today that our facilities monitoring station (that measures voltage, UPS failover, ambient temperatures in the data centre) is run off net.
Our Power Monitoring Panels are aggregated into three cat5e connections which run under the data centre floor and then - get this - connect to a Linksys hub that is hidden under the floor tiles, which then connects to the monitoring station. This in a facility with several dozen Cisco 6513s!
We're going to migrate it to our main server farm infrastructure and then the Citrix guys are going to work their mojo. But FUCK ME! I actually laughed out loud when I saw that poxy little hub peeking out from underneath piles of cable.
I'm just waiting for management to tell us that migrating this setup presents too great a risk.
Our Power Monitoring Panels are aggregated into three cat5e connections which run under the data centre floor and then - get this - connect to a Linksys hub that is hidden under the floor tiles, which then connects to the monitoring station. This in a facility with several dozen Cisco 6513s!
We're going to migrate it to our main server farm infrastructure and then the Citrix guys are going to work their mojo. But FUCK ME! I actually laughed out loud when I saw that poxy little hub peeking out from underneath piles of cable.
I'm just waiting for management to tell us that migrating this setup presents too great a risk.
