I've been through this more than once. You need evaluate what is the most critical and what is less critical and start downing systems. In these situations, you probably need to make the big decision yourself since everyone is going to tell you their system is most important. Let's face it, people will say everything is critical but there is typically some stuff you could do a little bit more without. Customer facing systems like fax and phones stay up. Email? Maybe up, maybe down. If you have a gateway that can store mail for you, maybe you could bring it down. Dev systems? Take em down.
Open the doors, get out the fans. If you don't have any, send the minion to home depot and tell him to haul a**. When everything is fixed, bring it back up. You won't sleep soundly for at least week. After that, post mortem with management and evaluate the loss against getting a redundant AC. -----Original Message----- From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Its 89 degrees in our server room!!! Our AC has been down all day and are servers and equipment are pretty toasty feeling. Would you guys shut yours down? Doing so would cause the company to be serverly impacted, but they would be more impacted if some of them meltdown. James ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
