Re: Rack Mount for 170?

["Tracey MacKenzie" <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Thanks Al, that is a really good point.  We are up against a computer room
reorg
> and they are pushing hard to try to mount the system, but I will look some
more
> into it and into the page Kirk recommended before I make a decision.
>

Jessica,

If they insist on rack mounting it against your advice, just ask whoever is
driving the project to sign a document that they acknowledge this is not the
recommended way of housing the machine, that they take full responsibility
for any extended downtime caused by lack of access to hardware, also that
they have arranged for removing the system from the rack in the event of any
service and/or upgrades, and that they have arranged extra insurance to
cover the additional risk of it being put in/taken out during service etc
etc etc Make sure that a third party (preferably a nervous risk-management
oriented bean counter) also sees a copy of the document under the guise of
covering all the bases of who needs to know. Maybe the user department
managers are another possibility.

Make sure they have to sign on some official company document.. the aim
being to make them drop the idea as being too risky for their career in the
event of a disaster, or that the user departments will forbid it.

HTH, Cheers !
Evan Harris

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