Typically, don't remote power strips require the network to be operating?
Maybe I'm too removed from the routing world to know about all the cool
new toys.
John Valenti wrote:
> A few other tidbits I picked up at the meeting:
>
> 1. MSU's long distance phone calls are routed over the Internet. The
> default path uses Merit, but it can be manually re-routed over an AT&T
> connection. (someone at Telecomm re-routed things after an hour of
> downtime this morning).
>
> 2. MSU is developing a remote hot site at Penn State. Currently in an
> early stage of development, so there isn't a redundant network path to
> it. Potentially the MSU web home page will be duplicated there
> (eventually),
>
> 3. Merit had to send techs from Ann Arbor to Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo
> to reboot hardware this morning (they had a good reason for this). They
> will be installing remote power management hardware; also trying to get
> some local people signed up for access to those fiber rooms.
>
> -John
>
>
> On August 21, at 12:52 PM August 21, Doug Nelson wrote:
>
>> For those of you who didn't attend Merit's web conference, here's a
>> short update. Merit engineers traced the source of the Merit Network
>> problems to the failure of an optical amplifier within the MiLR network,
>> following scheduled maintenance by the fiber carrier. This failure
>> created a marginal optical fiber path, and accounted for the network
>> difficulties seen in the original outages between Thursday and Sunday,
>> and again this morning, after a second scheduled fiber maintenance
>> window. The fiber path failure was compounded by a software failure
>> which repeatedly attempted to bypass the marginal link, and then rapidly
>> restore the link to service. This process also caused the errant
>> switches to exhaust their memory due to a second software failure,
>> leading to additional packet switching and routing failures, cascading
>> throughout the Merit Network.
>>
>> Once the problematic link was disabled, service returned to a somewhat
>> stable state, but on limited bandwidth.
>>
>> As of 12:00 noon today, the Merit network appears to be operating
>> normally and at full capacity, but we are awaiting final word from
>> the Merit field and operations engineers on what was done and whether
>> service is fully restored.
>>
>> I will pass on additional details once Merit releases them.
>>
>> Doug
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