Bob Berry, President & CEO
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A Little Paranoia is Healthy
When you're planning your network monitoring, you've got to think about every little thing that can go wrong — because sooner or later nearly everything goes wrong, and small failures can bring down a whole site.
For example, think about everything that goes into your backup power supply: the batteries, the rectifier, the generator, the generator starter, the fuel level of the generator tank … if any one of these factors isn't operational when the AC fails, your site can go dark without warning.
It's not enough to just monitor your primary systems and trust that the backup systems will always be there. So be a little bit paranoid. You'll get a lot more trouble from monitoring too little than monitoring too much.
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