Must be the season for it - except of course your seasons are all backwards anyway .... ;-)
Couple of weeks ago we had a customer that had *3* (separate) failures in the protection hardware. No power blips, no storms; just our mate Murphy. Stuck between UPS and mains - no power to all the gear protected by the UPS. Everything else stayed up. Oooops. The initial failure was a diode on a monitor card for the UPS. Cascaded from there - hardware that we do test, failed when needed. I don't care what anyone says, you *cannot* plan (and test) for everything. That's why you have contingencies like backup site(s). Fortunately it didn't come to initiating a full DR scenario. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
