Mike's Realm

So I wish I had a neat little graph to post, however it’s full of holes due to my syslog/snmp monitoring server powering itself off due to thermal events…In the summer heat here in South Florida my rack gets to over 112°F.  It’s in the garage due to the sheer noise and the heat that is generated, I have been contemplating a portable room a/c unit or one of those split systems but both would be a waste of energy since the garage door opens atleast 2 times a day.  All of my whitebox and my larger Dell server don’t give a rats…that it’s 112°F.  Only this 1U Dell PE1550 seems to care.  But in reality I can’t even blame it all on that server, the rack’s UPS has been needing a new battery cartridge for over 3 months so it’s possible that it’s dropping power and the other servers power back up and not that one…The NetBot’s Device Crawler indicates that *could* be the cause with uptimes of the core network devices in that rack.  Either way I need to get to the bottom of this as I am virtualizing more and more on that 1550…I guess I’ll head by batterysplus and get raked over the coals for the no less then 8 batteries in this cartridge…damn technology…