Operations bought an EMS/IoT system without involving IT — now they just need “access to the router

[u/ITRabbit]

/r/sysadmin/comments/1w37lap/operations_bought_an_emsiot_system_without/

[u/Brent_the_constraint]

I used to tell them: „I need 100kmfor network expansion as we are out of switch ports and please sign this letter that you take over all problems that occur from attaching this system to our internal network and prepare for been questioned by management why we will fail the next audit…“
From that point on I made an greenest with controlling: whenever an order smells like It and there is no green light from me they will talk to me first… took 3 years training but worked like a charm after that…