[98188] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Wed Jul 25 16:49:41 2007
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:10:11 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070725160747.GB75636@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Leo Bicknell wrote:
> I was complaining to some of the power designers during the building
> of a major facility that the EPO button represented a single point
> of failure, and effectively made all of the redundancy built into
> the power system useless. After all, what's the point of having
> two (or more) of anything, if there's one button somewhere that
> turns it all off?
>
If the EPO cuts power to the whole facility, it didn't fail, it worked
perfectly. The failure is actually Slappy the EPO button-pusher.
~Seth
