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Conference 44.370::system_management

Title:	system management communications forum

Moderator:	CHEST::THOMPSON

Created:	Fri Mar 21 1986
Last Modified:	Thu Jul 08 1993
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	490
Total number of notes:	2018

117.0. "FOOT down again!" by RDGE00::SMITH_I (Fast as a Mamba, Brave as a Lion!) Mon Feb 08 1988 08:10

    
    Is there a major problem with node FOOT?  I arrived at 7:50 this
    morning to find that once again it is not available.  If there is
    a serious problem perhaps someone would be kind enough to inform
    us poor little users what it is, so that we may be prepared for
    some down time.
    
    Node RDGE28 is also unavailable, though it does show up as a cluster
    member, again, the reason it is not available would be nice to hear.
    
    Regards,
    Ian

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117.1 Yes RDGE28::THOMPSON Tue Feb 09 1988 15:06 21

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117.1	Yes	RDGE28::THOMPSON		`Tue Feb 09 1988 15:06`	21
	Foot went down after work on power supplies at weekend. Engineer worked on it from 09:00 until 16:30 eliminating possible faulty power modules. Problem was escallated at 16:30 to district support level. Engineer phoned USA at 22:00 for further help. 3 possible components identified as root of trouble. All 3 sent from London at 23:00. Machine was up again early on Tuesday morning. U28 did not reboot cleanly on Sunday. This was why it was running but not available until 11:15 on Monday. I tried to build in the parts of systartup that appeared to be missing in the period between 09:00 and 11:00 before deciding that it was a reboot job. I did leave phone messages for you during the day regarding progress with the hardware fault. Perhaps these weren't relayed? I'd like to thank the rest of you for your patience (and good humour) yesterday. As I think you can see, although there was not much evidence of real progress as far as you were concerned, behind the scenes there was a lot of work going on to fix the problem, and I was trying my best to extract as much grunt as possible from the two remaining VAXes in the cluster.

    Foot went down after work on power supplies at weekend. Engineer
    worked on it from 09:00 until 16:30 eliminating possible faulty
    power modules. Problem was escallated at 16:30 to district support
    level. Engineer phoned USA at 22:00 for further help. 3 possible
    components identified as root of trouble. All 3 sent from London
    at 23:00. Machine was up again early on Tuesday morning.
    
    U28 did not reboot cleanly on Sunday. This was why it was running
    but not available until 11:15 on Monday. I tried to build in the
    parts of systartup that appeared to be missing in the period
    between 09:00 and 11:00 before deciding that it was a reboot job.
    
    I did leave phone messages for you during the day regarding progress
    with the hardware fault. Perhaps these weren't relayed?
    
    I'd like to thank the rest of you for your patience (and good humour)
    yesterday. As I think you can see, although there was not much evidence
    of real progress as far as you were concerned, behind the scenes
    there was a lot of work going on to fix the problem, and I was trying
    my best to extract as much grunt as possible from the two remaining
    VAXes in the cluster.