Very nice narative Hal! Thanks for sharing. A couple of years ago about the same thing happened to us. I was in my cubicle working away (or more probably reading IBM-MAIN) when we took a power hit. No big deal, it was just a flash. Lights blinked, my PC rebooted. Happens once in a while. So I figured I'd walk into the computer room "just to check".
For those of you who haven't experienced it, it is quite un-nerving to walk into your computer room and it is Dead Silent. Well, not totally dead. The only thing running was our EMC DMX on it's backup batteries. The rest of the building had it's power back. Everything normal, right? Nope, our UPS went to make the switch to batteries and the batteries failed. Now the UPS wouldn't switch back to local power. As I stood in our dimly lit computer room listening to only the DMX running, wondering what went wrong and looking for a scoop for my pants, I hear the DMX powering down. All I could think of was head crashes. And, how the heck do I power all of this stuff up when we do get power back? To make a long story short, we got the UPS switched back to local power and the next day we had new batteries flown in. We brought up our systems just fine about an hour and a half after it all stared. DB2 didn't complain. IMS didn't cry. All was good. We ran on local power with no UPS backup capability for a day and a half. Gutsy move? Yes, considering we ARE the power compnay! Most definitely we make monthly tests on the UPS now. Anyway, just thought I would share. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
