David Andrews wrote: >Ed Gould wrote: >> The standard issue I have with any machine oriented documentation is that >> hen the system is down what good is it going to do you? *NONE*
>Hee! A few years ago we had a total power outage in the computer room, result >of an UPS failure. The kids hadn't gone through a power-cycle in a coon's >age, and nobody over there knew how to get things back up. Say Again! ;-) This is why we do every month or so a scheduled IPL. Resolving memory creeps, PTFs and to re-train the untrainable operators on how to do an IPL to keep their brain cells oiled. ;-) Of course, we have once a nasty power-outage, the UPS was not in a 'standby' mode, so it did not kicked in when the municipality tries out their power outage games in a district. Wow, interesting times when everything from the DASD, CPU, etc down up to the lights went all blank/black/silent. ;-) You *can* smell the darkness. I found some young guys/gals (unfamiliar with those outages) in a dark corridor [1] and made a mixture of alien/dog growling noise and clapped my hand. Fun of course. ;-D >The procedure *was* all documented. On the wiki. Docs are stored on our laptops, on shared LAN drives and hardcopy. We're not taking changes. ;-) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht [1] - where the battery emergency lights were not working. ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
