university shutdown for 28 hours bullshit
I'm amazed how much fuss the university has generated with the supposed connection of some new building to their power grid. The MC/DC buildings are officially shut down for 28 hours (they even put metal chains on the doors between DC and the small building accessible through E3/EIT), there is a diesel power generator next to MC that is working for 28 hours (huge and noisy as hell) with some security contractor overseeing the operation, and all the CS infrastructure, including the internal switches, is shutdown (supposed to be accessible again at 20:00 today, but appears to be still unreachable, and it's around 21:00 as I'm writing this). They've even went so far as to modify the DNS records, such that pages like www.cs resolve to an IST-controlled server that displays the information regarding the outage. Even the SLC and the Turnkey Desk are closed!
I have a few questions:
1. Why does it take the university 28 hours to connect the new building?
2. Has anyone actually noticed the lights in the DC being off at any given time during these 28 hours? So far, the only evidence I have is they've never been off, yet all the network infrastructure is powered down (why?). (Perhaps someone can report if they left some laptops or machines with UPS running during the "outage" that detected the time and the duration of the outage (provided there was actually an outage)?)
3. Why is there a diesel power generator blocking the sidewalk next to MC running during the expected outage when in fact there is no actual outage? The generator is there and is running, but the outage is missing. Why does the university bothers to rent a generator for a few days for this bullshit, yet doesn't have one onsite as a regular backup for normal operations?
4. Why is the university apparently spending so much money and planning for something with such an unclear utility? First off, even if there was an outage, it was entirely minimal and this whole planned outage thing with so many people involved and all the CS infrastructure being shutdown is kinda annoying.
I have a few questions:
1. Why does it take the university 28 hours to connect the new building?
2. Has anyone actually noticed the lights in the DC being off at any given time during these 28 hours? So far, the only evidence I have is they've never been off, yet all the network infrastructure is powered down (why?). (Perhaps someone can report if they left some laptops or machines with UPS running during the "outage" that detected the time and the duration of the outage (provided there was actually an outage)?)
3. Why is there a diesel power generator blocking the sidewalk next to MC running during the expected outage when in fact there is no actual outage? The generator is there and is running, but the outage is missing. Why does the university bothers to rent a generator for a few days for this bullshit, yet doesn't have one onsite as a regular backup for normal operations?
4. Why is the university apparently spending so much money and planning for something with such an unclear utility? First off, even if there was an outage, it was entirely minimal and this whole planned outage thing with so many people involved and all the CS infrastructure being shutdown is kinda annoying.