David Jousma's mention of a halon dump due to dust on a chiller reminds me of another incident later on at my first vendor, an almost-outage. By then we'd moved to a slightly less toy data center: instead of the raised floor being stacked in a corner, it was actually installed, and we had a real chiller.
Said chiller would, however, cut out at times, and we'd get calls from the Radio Shack robot saying that the temperature was high (I think I've written about that toy monitor before?). One such time the only person in the office was a young guy who knew nothing about the mainframe; I'm not even sure why he had access to the room, although it wasn't a trust issue. I know there was a Netware server in there, so maybe he needed access to that. Anyway, he's in there trying to help. I'm at home on the phone (both ends wired--this was 1990 or so--so that's not helping him maneuver around the room: he keeps having to put the phone down to go follow my directions), talking him through restarting the chiller. First he has to find it. I'm trying to direct him--you know how these things are: you've done it a thousand times but describing it is amazingly hard! "OK, it's a big box against a wall...face the tape drives, then turn around..." Finally he asks, "Is it anywhere near this thing labeled "Liebert"? Doh! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
