From my other posts, you have probably learned that I'm becoming a junior sysadmin for a college helpdesk.
This weekend, the building will be undergoing electrical testing (while the helpdesk is closed).
In order to prepare for this, the helpdesk shut EVERYTHING down.
Yes, its a small business and yes, we'd be closed, but does anyone else think that everything going down is a bad idea? Especially when during the summer the staff is working remotely on problems? Keep in mind, this also includes the nagios server...
We don't really have the resources to duplicate the servers in another building and again our resources are slim, but shouldn't at least the SSH tunnel server and monitoring server (openVZ) be kept on a battery backup that lasts a few hours?
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