[AusNOG] Outage at iPrimus Datacentre - 55 King St, Melbourne

Brad Gould bradley at internode.com.au
Mon Feb 2 09:49:15 EST 2009


All the doors at 55 King are mag-locks.  So the doors being wide open 
would have been a legally-mandated feature, not a bug.

Brad


Campbell, Alex wrote:
> Is it standard practise for all the doors to unlock when power goes 
> out?  Surely the security system (and perhaps lights) should be on their 
> own UPS?
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> *From:* ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net 
> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Darren Moss
> *Sent:* Sunday, 1 February 2009 10:35 PM
> *To:* ausnog at ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Outage at iPrimus Datacentre - 55 King St, Melbourne
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> What an absolute disgrace.
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> I was onsite today and the place was a disaster. No lights, no air-con, 
> security doors wide open.
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> No checking of IDs, process out the door.
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> My staff and I removed application servers and walked straight past the 
> NOC staff – who did not even ask what we were doing.
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> Yes, that’s right, lugging HP Proliant boxes and rail kits under our 
> arms. Can you believe it ???
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> Thank goodness we removed the bulk of our application servers from there 
> in 2008.
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> The rest will be removed this week.
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> Regards, 
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> Primus staff have just confirmed that the facility is back on mains 
> power, and power has been restored to all customer areas.
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> No word on what happened to the generator (generators?) yet.
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> *From:* Skeeve Stevens [mailto:skeeve at skeeve.org]
> *Sent:* Sunday, 1 February 2009 6:05 PM
> *To:* 'Bevan Slattery'; Campbell, Alex; ausnog at ausnog.net
> *Subject:* RE: [AusNOG] Outage at iPrimus Datacentre - 55 King St, Melbourne
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> Any word as to what happened to the generators?
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> …Skeeve
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> *From:* ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net 
> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Bevan Slattery
> *Sent:* Sunday, 1 February 2009 5:58 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Outage at iPrimus Datacentre - 55 King St, Melbourne
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> Further update from Primus. Failure of substation.  City Power (I think) 
> have been working on the issue.  Problem has been rectified and are 
> about to switch back to mains as I type.
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> Cheers
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> *From:* ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net 
> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Campbell, Alex
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 01, 2009 4:37 PM
> *To:* skeeve at eintellego.net; ausnog at ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Outage at iPrimus Datacentre - 55 King St, Melbourne
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> We lost power at 2:40pm and saw both A & B feeds come back up in the 
> expansion room at about 4:02pm. At this stage some of the older areas 
> haven't had power restored yet.
> 
> Not getting any info from DC staff on cause or likelihood of continued 
> power issues tonight.
> 
> Alex
> (who doesn't mind hiding out from the Melbourne heat in the aircon at 
> Primus right now)
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> *From*: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
> *To*: ausnog at ausnog.net
> *Cc*: nznog at list.waikato.ac.nz
> *Sent*: Sun Feb 01 15:12:59 2009
> *Subject*: [AusNOG] Outage at iPrimus Datacentre - 55 King St, Melbourne
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> Hey all,
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> Little detail at present... but the iPrimus DC in 55 King St Melbourne 
> seems to have had a complete failure.  Power, UPS and Generator have 
> apparently all failed.
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> Anyone else have more detail, feel free to follow up.
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> ...Skeeve
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Brad Gould, Network Engineer
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