Yesterday was the typical network administrator duties, until about 2:30 in the afternoon. One of the managers came by my office and said you might want to come take a look at this. I smiled and thought wow she must of did some wild decorations forHolloween or something. She said I dont think youll be smiling long. Bewildered I followed her to my server room. Turns out she had been letting a carpet guy messure the building for new carpet. She has access to the server room and when they walked in they found what was to be my nightmare.
I have seen rain forests on TV, but I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would see one in my server room. Water just pouring through the ceiling tiles. My god….as i looked and assesed whatthe water was pouring on, all I could say was NO F***ing way.
Thank god somebody around had the good sense to allready have gotten some visquene and was on the way with it. When they showed up, I was startled but started into action. While I was trying to divert the water away from flowing over the top of my catalyst switch and routers and servers, that nightmarish thought that all network administrators fear popped into my head. How in the hell am I going to fix all this equipment and get it back running. I have a DRP. Don’t think waterfalls is covered in it. (mental note) add severe water falls to DRP. And would I actually take the time to read it before I started into the task of trying to get equipment back up and running, nah…But it is good that I have one on the shelf in my office.
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