Re: OpenVMS - When downtime is not an option

P. Sture wrote:

I've sort of cheated there. A fuel line was found running across the top of a computer room at one customer many years ago. An insurance company audit picked that one up. For bonus points, they also found a canteen deep fat fryer directly above the mainframe.

How have people dealt with water sprinklers in computer rooms ?

Is it worth fighting building managers who insist the sprinklers be left in a computer room (despite automated gas systems (halon or CO2, geez, both are really harmful to the planet :-) ?

Or is the general logic that the gas system will always extinguish a fire before the sprinklers will start ?

Never quite seen those in action, but when heat reaches one sprinklers, is it only that one that opens and sprays water, or are they built in such a way that when one opens, the others also open ?
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