UPS - single points of failure

[Matt Shields]

True, I don't know if I would have been so nice.  But it could be good
PR to the usurping company that you helped them out by not just
shutting down their servers.  Even if they don't tell people how good
you are, if you do unplug them they could tell people how you took
their servers down.  They may not tell people that it was their fault,
but you'll still get blamed for taking them offline.  A little good
will can go a long way.

Matt

On 12/1/06, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> Yesterday, the office manager (we work in a managed office - Regus at
> the Riverside Center) came into our office. One of the tenants was
> moving out, and they found that someone was using their UPS, and they
> were nice enough to ask. Since our 2 servers were plugged into the
> outlets in the ceiling we knew we were not the culprits. There were 3
> servers sitting below out server, and one of them was plugged into the
> departing tenant's UPS. We were able to trace who the company was that
> owned the servers usurping the UPS. In any case, the company who owned
> the UPS decided to leave it there overnight until the office manager
> could get hold of the usurping company.
> I probably wouldn't have been so nice :-)
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