[91569] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone else lost power at Fisher Plaza this afternoon?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Fri Aug 4 12:31:44 2006
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:30:57 -0400
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <C0F8C177.367C8%mksmith@adhost.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Michael K. Smith wrote:
> It was a breaker in the main bypass from city power to the generators. The
> breaker failed to close so the generators happily fed power to nowhere.
> Then, everyone's UPS failed and down we/they went. The outage lasted
> approximately 26 minutes.
Nobody checked to make sure that at least one of the UPSs showed a
status of "ONLINE" instead of "ONBATTERY"? Were there no UPSs
configured to alert during continued and extended PF? Surely people
didn't just trust the sound/vibration of the running generator.
-Jim P.
