"This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Patrick" who told us he once installed an extra shelf of storage for a NAS at a local council office in Australia. The job initially went well. "The staff left me alone in the computer room while I was tidying up the paperwork," Patrick wrote. While he handled that administrivia, something caught Patrick's eye."
""Both consoles were open on my laptop and I suddenly noticed both controllers were reporting network ports going down." Not long after, the whole NAS died and brought the council's servers down with it. Members of the council's tech team rushed in and demanded to know what Patrick had done. He had done nothing, but something tripped a breaker on one of the local government's uninterruptible power supplies (UPSes), which was the reason the NAS failed."
""When it happened, I was nowhere near anything," Patrick told The Register. "Maybe I had bumped something earlier when I was trying to find two circuits for the redundancy needed for the shelf?" The council's techies decided Patrick must be at fault. He retorted that even if he had inadvertently tripped the breaker, the real fault lay with whoever decided to plug all of council's infrastructure into the same circuit. "They still banned me from site," Patrick lamented."
A contractor identified as Patrick installed an extra storage shelf for a NAS at a local council office in Australia. While tidying paperwork in the computer room, he noticed both controllers reporting network ports going down. Shortly afterward the NAS failed and brought the council's servers down. Technicians accused him of causing the outage. Investigation found a breaker on a government UPS had tripped, which caused the NAS failure. Patrick said he had not been near equipment when it happened and suggested earlier contact while seeking redundant circuits might have contributed. He argued the real fault was centralized power distribution; he was nonetheless banned from the site.
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