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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: EPOs in critical facilities
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 17:28:48 -0400 (EDT) Sean Donelan <[email protected]> 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 -- Richard Welty [email protected] Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security
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