Here’s my situation. I have a switch stack and a router/firewall that are being stored in a maintenance/janitorial room. This hardware sits in an open frame wall rack, 4 feet from two industrial air handlers. There is a myriad of chemicals in the room as well giving off vapors, a mop sink and two large industrial power panels.
All of my backbone hardware as well as my phone equipment sit in this room measuring 8×15. Here’s a surprise, there are always issues with this equipment. The router resetting, DHCP service being lost, no pass through of SMTP/POP3 traffic to the outside world and the list goes on. I am freaking out, have been since I got here about the location of this equipment. Management keeps saying, just fix it and find out what is causing it. Me: The environment has a majority to do with it. Them: No, it doesn’t
Here’s what I am asking.
Anyone that is willing to comment on this and confirm that the environment can indeed cause these issues on the level of hardware problems, please email a response to the address listed below. I can’t effectively troubleshoot the problems because the fixes are so random, this leads me back to something that I either am not or cannot address/mitigate. The few pieces of new equipment that have been installed have been fine for a few months and then the problems begin to occur, increasing over time.
Please, help me get through to these guys.
webmaster@transnav.com
