Re: 170 - Power it off or keep it powered on?

Pete Massiello wrote:

Are we not mixing apples and oranges?
You have 70 days to enter a system password once it tells you that a you
need another one. But, I have machines we don't power up but once a year,
and they never ask for a password (V4R5 and V5R1, and maybe one is at V5R2
as well). Now, I can see that the cache battery may be another issue if you
don't power it up for a while, and that could run out. Hopefully the
machine came down smoothly and everything was written from the controllers
cache to disk.

For the sake of being "green", I wouldn't keep a machine up that isn't being
used. I would power it off when not in use. The suggestion about putting
it on a power schedule was a good idea as well.
Perhaps just too many upgrades this weekend is making my mind soft.

Pete

The grace period is well defined. The you get a reminder of exactly how many days you have left to enter the password. I've seen 70 days for this one.

What triggers system password expiration is less clear. Besides hardware changes (eg CPUs, load source DASD, etc.) or control panel cache battery failures, it apparently can also be X continuous days of the system being powered down.

That your systems have not triggered expiration goes to the question about what is going on here.


Keith