RE: when a ups doesn't help

Hi Jim,

That has always been common practice around our shops.  The AS/400 has
it's own UPS and the remaining Wintel servers all operate under their
own UPS grid.

We're by no means a big shop (2 AS/400s, 8 Wintel servers), but I would
have to guess the bigger shops might operate in the same fashion.

Brian.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Franz [mailto:franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 9:50 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: when a ups doesn't help

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