Questions tagged [physical-environment]

This tag is appropriate for questions dealing with the physical environment of a system/deployment (e.g. dust, vibration, etc.) with no better, more specific tag.

This tag is appropriate for questions dealing with the physical environment of a system/deployment. Examples include questions asking about "special" environments, like:

  • Substantial shock/vibration
  • High dust levels
  • High levels of EM interference
  • Extremely hot or cold temperatures, or wide temperature swings
  • Extremely humid areas

If a more specific tag exists, please use that instead.

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Is the temperature differential in my server room to large under heavy load

I have two temperature readings for my server room one measures the ambient temperature the other measures the exhaust for a server cluster. I have noticed recently that the difference between these temperatures can reach near 30F is this to large?…
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What are the considerations which decide the server Dimensions in Rack Servers?

In a DataCenter, say a rack is 42U high. Some rack servers in that rack can be full-width and 1U high, while some servers can be half-width and 2U high. Yet others can be half-width, 1U, but double depth. In all cases, the "volume" or "capacity" of…
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environment host urls convention and using wildcard DNS

we're setting up new hosts and environment servers on our company... creating 3 server instances... dev, stage, production we've multiple clients and multiple projects per client so this is our…
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Is it possible to find a computer's physical location in a room?

I'm currently working on our network monitoring system (NMS) project, and I want to know if there's a way for me to pinpoint where each PC is currently at. Say, for example, we have a room with 40 PCs in it, is it possible for our NMS to tell which…
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Appropriate fan speed for a Dell PowerEdge T710

We have a DELL PowerEdge T710 in our office and it is really really noisy, the fans sound like vacuum cleaners! The discussion is whether the server is malconfigured and can be made more silent or if the fans need to run at this speed and the server…
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HP DL180 G6: where is temp sensor #21

With the warmer summer days starting to hit, my server is increasingly going into thermal protection shutdown due to temp sensor #21 reaching critical level (58*C), as reported in ILO. The fans are all running fine but unfortunately, the server is…
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Intel SSB temperature sensor

I have an Intel server motherboard that is reporting an issue with the SSB temperature sensor. I have searched for the acronym but cannot find a definition. What does SSB stand for?
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ipmitool pef temperature soft shutdown

Recently I've had the technicians switch off the cooling system in the server room, without notifying me first. Since the compute nodes do have IPMI cards from different manufacturers installed, I'd like to simply configure via ipmitool a threshold…
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Nagios & Temperature

I'm currently running Nagios 3 on Linux, with Windows clients using NSClient++. The Windows clients (8) will be put into a hot humid environment. I have all the basic checks working for CPU, RAM, etc under Nagios. But I need to find a way to monitor…
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What causes servers to reload or shut down if COLO temperature is around 35C or above?

What causes servers to shut down or reload in case of high temperature? For example Juniper network equipment running Junos OS will halt the routing engine if it's CPU temperature remains above 100C for more than 60s: Jun 3 00:40:32 M10i…
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Dell Poweredge 2950 with E5430 Temperature

So I just picked up a few Poweredge 2950 servers and I have them set up with Windows Server 2012. I installed Core Temp to monitor CPU temperature. One server has a CPU operating temp of the following according to CoreTemp: CPU…
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Blackout Blind for a server room

Would getting a blackout blind reduce the temperature of my server room? I have already silvered the windows and our aircon is struggling but we are not in a position to be able to replace the aircon yet. Sorry if this question is out of scope
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Rack door open, or rack door closed

In our 'server room' (not much more than a converted cupboard in reality) we have one struggling AC unit that is not man enough to cool the servers, which are housed in a full height rack. The ambient temperature outside the room is lower than that…
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How to connect 2 Physical Networks with 2 Separate WAN together

My customer has two small companies in two separate buildings that have merged. The buildings are 30ft apart, so they ran an outdoor, buried CAT6 cable between them. They want to use the main building's server for some file sharing and Quickbooks…
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Server Room Temperature Monitoring - Where to stick my probes?

I have a small server room approx 7' x 12' with an A/C unit dedicated to this room that is positioned on of the short (7') sides and blows air across the room towards the other short (7') side. The server room is set to temp of 69F but usually will…
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