Homelab Hero · No. 010

One incident. Three calls.

Monday, 8:20 PM. Your core switch has started rebooting itself every twenty minutes, and the whole lab drops with it each time. On the shelf sit a spare unmanaged switch and last week's config backup — and two people in this house work from home through that switch tomorrow morning.

Your call:

A. Move the critical cables to the spare switch, restore service for the night, and bench-test the core switch offline

B. Move the core switch to a different outlet and UPS output and watch whether the reboots stop

C. Factory-reset the core switch in place and rebuild its configuration from memory tonight

100 Hero Points for the right call — 200 on the Friday Boss Fight. From Issue No. 010 of The Homelab Herald. Your result lands on the next page, ready to share.