[tech] UCC Servers + UPS

[Matt Didcoe]

Hi all,

Given the efforts to upgrade club security of late, I was wondering if
perhaps we should be putting some more effort into protecting the server
equipment we're running in the machine room - not just physical  
security,
but data security.

It's my understanding that currently none of the machines are  
protected by
UPS. Mitch donated some small ones last year (based on what little
information I've gathered), but not sure where they went...APC ones,  
from
my limited reading and small amount of experience with the topic,  
appear to
be quite good and there's some reasonably priced models going around  
(from
Harris Technology no less, I'm sure they are even cheaper elsewhere  
also)

The cost would of course, be based on how many we wanted to load it up
with.

On another note, I've not got access to all the stuff on mission  
control,
so this is just a guess, but it looks like we're monitoring the  
temperature
of individual servers, but are we doing any general environmental
monitoring and also access monitoring on the machine room?

- Matt [MRD]
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20090721/87d2b7bb/attachment.htm