Re: AS/400 time warp or black hole?

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

SWAG:

power schedule?

If you already thought of this and checked it then, s stands for stupid (me
that is)  <vbg>

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

"Those who would give up essential Liberty,
  to purchase a little temporary Safety,
  deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

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-----Original Message-----
From: M. Lazarus <mlazarus@ttec.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 1:17 PM
Subject: AS/400 time warp or black hole?


>  A client experienced something very strange this morning.  Their AS/400
>(model 170, which also runs NT and Domino) was silent.  Front panel
>dark.  The UPS was also off.  There was no power failure and no one in the
>office during the time period that it must have turned off.
>
>  The above is odd, but not the clincher!
>
>  The QHST log entries were posted @ 1:13am (where the backup ended and the
>tape was ejected), 4:00am when PM/400 tried to dial out and failed (due to
>the modem not being in the proper state, which is a normal condition.)  The
>next entry was @ 8:37 when the operator started the IPL.
>
>  The system was off when the first person came into office @ 6:30am.  So
>sometime between 4 and 6:30 it magically went "lights out."  The SYSVAL
>says that the system terminated abnormally.
>
>  QSYSOPR just shows the normal IPL msgs. DSPLOG shows no abnormal msg. for
>that time period.  SST shows no dumps, LIC errors, hardware errors.  Power
>backup test via SST passes.  WRKPRB does not have an entry for that time
>period (other than the comm line error, which is normal.)
>
>  I'm having IBM come in and check the internal battery and the UPS (which
>is an IBM unit).
>
>  My question is: What would cause this?  The only thing I can think of is
>that the internal battery is dead and the UPS failed, so the system just
>stopped cold and couldn't write anything to any logs.
>
>  Has anyone run into this before?  Thanks.
>
>  -mark
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