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Re: Mae-WEST

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Kozowski)
Fri Jul 11 15:26:23 1997

Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 12:04:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Eric Kozowski <kozowski@structured.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu

>Or, lets say, an automatic network monitor (ALA SNMP) that tells them 
>when UPS power is about to run down (before the lights go out) so they 
>can roll their generator into place.

Shades of the massive AT&T failure of a few years ago.

Lose external power, go to battery -- batteries run flat, cause nobody
is paying attention.

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