Re: ups batteries draining, can't switch to generators

2009-05-26 Thread Rick Fochtman
-- I would respectfully disagree. I posed this question to the group a while back and the consensus was to let it crash. I believe the thought was that there was just not enough time or information to make an in

Re: ups batteries draining, can't switch to generators

2009-05-26 Thread Hal Merritt
-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ups batteries draining, can't switch to generators While YMMV, out experience has been that any utility power failure lasting more than 5-15 seconds is a solid failure and the outage will invariably be an hour or more while the utility company locates and fixe

Re: ups batteries draining, can't switch to generators

2009-05-23 Thread Scott T. Harder
On 5/23/09, Ted MacNEIL wrote: > When I started in this business, working as an operator was almost a > requirement before becoming a SYSPROG. Absolutely. > > BTDT. GTTS. ;-) > > But, my management (at the time) still gave them the call of if/which > changes would be implemented. > And, which

Re: ups batteries draining, can't switch to generators

2009-05-23 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>I saw, firsthand, the dumbing down of OPS and it disturbed me greatly. When I started in this business, working as an operator was almost a requirement before becoming a SYSPROG. >I had mgmt come into Operations where I worked that *never* wanted to be at >fault... that was truly their #1 pri

Re: ups batteries draining, can't switch to generators

2009-05-23 Thread Scott T. Harder
Sorry should have said "restarted the CATALOG address space". On 5/23/09, Scott T. Harder wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a couple of points to make on this topic: > > 1) For all the well documented (and well taken) information about the > importance of shutting down a system orderly and cleanly

Re: ups batteries draining, can't switch to generators

2009-05-23 Thread Scott T. Harder
Hi All, I have a couple of points to make on this topic: 1) For all the well documented (and well taken) information about the importance of shutting down a system orderly and cleanly, I find it hard to remember when - in my experience - the system ever had problems coming back up after a hard c

Re: ups batteries draining, can't switch to generators

2009-05-23 Thread Doug Fuerst
Why not simply fix the problems in the power systems, and test them regularly? If this had been the case in the last 3 places I have worked, I would have been escorted off the premises, and my stuff thrown out after me. Doug snip Kelly Bert Manning wrote: Please don't laugh. I

Re: ups batteries draining, can't switch to generators

2009-05-23 Thread Joel C Ewing
While YMMV, out experience has been that any utility power failure lasting more than 5-15 seconds is a solid failure and the outage will invariably be an hour or more while the utility company locates and fixes the problem. This means that unless you have an extraordinary UPS, or functional ge