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Re: Centralized security administration
From: Harold Winshel <winshel () CAMDEN RUTGERS EDU>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:21:36 -0400
I think that both sides - the IT people and the electricians - have very good arguments for their respective positions. At 08:39 PM 8/18/2006, Cal Frye wrote:
Hunt,Keith A ventured to comment, at 8/18/06 2:31 PM: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Valdis Kletnieks [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU] >> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 2:05 PM ... >> Then we get Somebody Important suddenly >> discovering a wild hair about "physical security", and >> installs a door with a >> lock. >> >> By the next morning, the servers are all totally dead due to >> overheating, >> as there wasn't good airflow with the door in the way. Whoops. > > When I said "easy" I guess I meant lacking in political baggage or a > need for some massive educational effort. Couldn't you put up some sort > of gate or cage door that would still provide air flow? We have a perennial discussion with our facilities unit over whether the electricians should have keys to our data closets, and then it expands to the janitors, etc. How much a risk this represents depends on which manager you talk to... And that example /should/ be one of the easier ones! -- -- Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College www.ouuf.org, www.calfrye.com, www.pitalabs.com "I have only made this [letter] longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662).
Harold Winshel Computing and Instructional Technologies Faculty of Arts & Sciences Rutgers University, Camden Campus 311 N. 5th Street, Room B36 Armitage Hall Camden NJ 08102 (856) 225-6669 (O)
Current thread:
- Re: Centralized security administration, (continued)
- Re: Centralized security administration Sadler, Connie (Aug 17)
- Re: Centralized security administration Tom Davis (Aug 18)
- Re: Centralized security administration Hunt,Keith A (Aug 18)
- Re: Centralized security administration Hunt,Keith A (Aug 18)
- Re: Centralized security administration Valdis Kletnieks (Aug 18)
- Re: Centralized security administration Sadler, Connie (Aug 18)
- Re: Centralized security administration Hunt,Keith A (Aug 18)
- Re: Centralized security administration Robert Ono (Aug 18)
- Re: Centralized security administration Valdis Kletnieks (Aug 18)
- Re: Centralized security administration Cal Frye (Aug 18)
- Re: Centralized security administration Harold Winshel (Aug 18)
- Re: Centralized security administration Geoff Nathan (Aug 19)