[51187] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EPOs in critical facilities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Wed Aug 21 18:16:58 2002
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 18:13:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0208211708210.27981-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 17:28:48 -0400 (EDT) Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Deepak Jain wrote:
> > We have seen disgruntled Union members hit the EPO in data centers in
> > Union-friendly cities.
> >
> > Not pretty outcome, no matter how much redundancy you have.
>
> I believe the Uptime Institute has some statistics showing EPO problems
> are one of the top five reasons for critical facility outages.
i've seen poorly trained, inexperienced electricians hit EPOs for
totally bogus reasons. putting a big red EPO button in front of them is
like dangling a shiney object in front of some people i know.
once at GE R&D, we had an electrician announce that "the room was running
on emergency power", so he had to turn the emergency power off.
richard
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