“There was an emergency and power was temporarily cut to the card reader terminals, and now none of them work. We need to get to the server room to reboot the access control server, but it’s behind a card-only door.”
“How much do we want to get in?”
“Very much.”
“Stand back.”
And that’s how I ended up busting down the server room’s door.
I’m currently working with a client that doesn’t have a health endpoint or any kind of monitoring on their new API . They say monitoring isn’t needed because it will never go down.
Naturally it went down on day two. They still haven’t added any “unnecessary” monitoring, insisting that it will never go down.
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Randall also had a followup t-shirt, now out of production:
I didn’t know about that!
I think admins got lazy, that’s why it is the second XCKD meme :D
Source (with alt-text on site): https://xkcd.com/705/
How do I keep forgetting to do this? I just need to set a reminder, thank you for reminding me! I’ll add this to the body of the post
You can also set it as the URL parameter.
Well then it would link to the webpage, not the actual image right?
“There was an emergency and power was temporarily cut to the card reader terminals, and now none of them work. We need to get to the server room to reboot the access control server, but it’s behind a card-only door.”
“How much do we want to get in?”
“Very much.”
“Stand back.”
And that’s how I ended up busting down the server room’s door.
Never put a locked door in the way of the fire brigade by the way, they will get in.
I’m currently working with a client that doesn’t have a health endpoint or any kind of monitoring on their new API . They say monitoring isn’t needed because it will never go down.
Naturally it went down on day two. They still haven’t added any “unnecessary” monitoring, insisting that it will never go down.
“Now I have an access point, ho ho ho!”
HO - HO - HO
Time for shenanigans