Phantom Down Times

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I used to support a customer many many years ago (won’t mention the name - relatively big company) whose system used to go down about 4pm every Saturday. It would come back up after about 5 minutes. For the longest time I couldn’t figure out why - and I used to go through all the UNIX scripts and logs to figure out what was happening. Finally I asked the adminisrator to take me through what happened at the premises every Saturday from 3:30 onwards.

Finally I figured out what was happening. They were shutting off the mains at 4, and the aux power would come online 5 minutes later! Took us almost 3 months to figure it out! :)

- Posted by lycan2046

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