Maybe it would be a good idea for people to put an expiration date check in whatever they use to monitor the rest of the machines. Or put the expiry date on a s

Maybe it would be a good idea for people to put an expiration date check in whatever they use to monitor the rest of the machines. Or put the expiry date on a shared calendar. We do both, and they start alerting two months in advance. This isn't rocket surgery, new, or much different than remembering people's birthdays. But a surprising number of technical people are simply incapable of managing events farther out than next week, and a surprising number of their managers are similarly incapable of making sure someone treats it as important. Makes me almost want to start a betting pool on who will be the next HugeCo to down themselves this way. Edit: And let me join the chorus in saying deliberately inducing random errors as a way to draw attention is a terrible idea.