Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building
Back in the late 90s, I implemented the first systematic monitoring of WalMart Store&#x27;s global network, including all of the store routers, hubs (not switches yet!) and 900mhz access points.
Did you know that WalMart had some stores in Indonesia? They did until 1998.<p>So when <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;May_1998_riots_of_Indonesia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;May_1998_riots_of_Indonesia</a> started happening, we heard some harrowing stories of US employees being abducted, among other things.<p>Around that same time, the equipment in the Jakarta store started sending high temperature alerts prior to going offline. Our NOC wasn&#x27;t able to reach anyone in the store.<p>The alerts were quite accurate: that was one of the many buildings that had been burned down in the riots. I guess it&#x27;s slightly surprising that electrical power to the equipment in question lasted long enough to allow temperature alerting. Most of our stores back then used satellite for their permanent network connection, so it&#x27;s possible telcom died prior to the fire reaching the UPC office.<p>In a couple of prominent places in the home office, there were large cutouts of all of the countries WalMart was in at the time up on the walls. A couple of weeks after this event, the Indonesia one was taken down over the weekend and the others re-arranged.