When IT documentation goes terribly wrong.

[EyeMWing]

A footnote attached to the first appearance of the name for a fileserver we just deployed (a custom build from scavenged parts):

The fileserver obtained its name as the Deathstar from a Star Wars reference. The old equipment in the case has been rebuilt many times. After deciding to build a custom server from the old case, we had concerns of overheating. So we built a fan housing that would be placed in the back calling it an "exhaust port." The mass amounts of power the server has also contributed to its name. Because the Deathstar space ship in Star Wars was very powerful, rebuilt several times, and only had one weakness (through the exhaust port), we decided that the Deathstar is an appropriate name for this fileserver.

It's just so demented that I'm not going to edit it out 😛

 

[her209]

Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!

 

[drinkmorejava]

lol, i hope he didn't get paid for that

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: drinkmorejava
lol, i hope he didn't get paid for that

If he does it well enough, we might buy him lunch. That's the only form of payment here.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Originally posted by: drinkmorejava
lol, i hope he get fired for that

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: joshsquall

Originally posted by: drinkmorejava
lol, i hope he get fired for that

Why? It's the truth. We made every last one of those jokes while we were building the damn thing, too.

Documenting the lineage of a system name, while not overly useful from an information standpoint, at least provides for good reading. And one day, when this SOB breaks, and the next admin is trying to fix this ridiculous custom server, he'll come across that in the documentation.

Ironically, we just brought the server up today, and we've determined that we can't UPS it with any gear we have. It'll actually draw so heavily that it hits any UPS we have onto battery - and once that's drained, it clicks off. And then comes back on. And then clicks back off. And then comes back on. So what we saved in in-house fabricating this server, we're going to have to spend on a damned UPS capable of supporting it. (That's alright, though, the previous inhabitant of the chassis was entirely capable of taking down a 15A circuit - you had to have it on an empty 20A, or it'd take it down)

 

[The Batt?sai]

Originally posted by: drinkmorejava
lol, i hope he didn't get paid for that

lol