Re: when a ups doesn't help

What we do, and I think that is more or less the norm, is we have a big
UPS for the computer room. But each I5 has his own dedicated circuit. 
Your problem most probably came from a defective power strip or because
you exeeded the capacity of the circuit.

Either way, you should check this before it happen again.

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>>> franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx 2006-02-22 09:50:21 >>>
Had a customer plug a monitor power cord into same rack power strip
that i5 was plugged into. This is a regular professional rack with
built in power
strips. The whole rack, with i5, is covered by a large ups. Power strip
"blinked" (some 
kind of electrical short) and next thing we know, i5 is IPLing. The
system value
is set to re-ipl when power restored, so it did. Came up fine, but
management 
asking how to avoid this. 
Is it common to use a large ups for multiple equipment,
or do most shops with comm, wintel servers, and i5 isolate the i5 on a
separate ups? 
(and that ups would have to be within power cord distance from server)
jim franz