MaltMan1

The room where my s8710 is housed has an A/C problem and the unit has to be shutdown for close to 2 hours tonight. Will the system stay up and running if the temperature gets too hot or does it stay running? I do not want it to shutdown unexpectedley. Also, if it does get really hot to the point where I feel the sytem will be damaged.. how do I shutdown on that system?

martinyoung

A simple guide for temperature is, if you can stand it the switch can stand it.

You shut an S8710 down from the maintenance web page. Do a save translations first then log into the standby server and follow the shutdown procedure in the left hand column. Then log into the active server and do the same thing. To bring them back up push the power button on the front. You need to make certain one comes up active and one comes up standby, do this by powering up one and then wait about 20 seconds then power up the other one.

If the air is off for only two hours you should not have to worry about it. Bring in a couple of fans and make sure the air is moving. If it is a confined room, prop the door open.

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MaltMan1

Awesome.. thanks for that. Do I still do a save translation from asa (save t)

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stubborne

I live in hurricane central. We lost pwr to our data center unexpectedly during a storm. Our DC had generator pwr, so we didn't expect an outage. A building maintenance man cut off the main compressors on the roof when he noticed they were running after public pwr had been cut. Nice... I think there is still litigation going on over that. Anyway, the G3R was the only equipment to survive, didn't lose a single pack. Just about every server had hardware issues, whether it completely died or disks drives crashed, whatever. It was so hot in there, you could not touch a single thing without being burned.

Needless to say, we were very impressed with the G3R...

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martinyoung

Just as a little side note. What the factory used to do was after the switch was built, and new switches are custom built for the customer, each cabinet would be sealed in a large plastic bag and left running for 48 hours. There was no ventilation in this bag and it got very hot in the bag. Anything that failed due to heat was replaced and if nothing failed the system was palletized and shipped.

They don't do this any more but it is still the same equipment built to the same standard.

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phones329

If your ever worried about loosing your system info, another thing you can do prior to any planned power outage, and for your own sanity, is to do a backup to your laptop. To do this, simply use an FTP server loaded on your laptop, go to "maint web interface" on the left select "FTP" and start the FTP server on the s8xxx. Then select "backup now" and do a complete backup via FTP. I do this once a quarter for all my customers and store them on a dedicated server in my office, never know when disaster will hit.
Another thing is, on s8500/8700 you can do a scheduled backup to the local flash card, choosing 1-7 days of the week. This is something else to look into for disater recovery.

aln

Yes, this test was performed at one of our customers: they were repairing the ceiling, and in order to avoid dust falling onto the Definity, they just packed it with plastic film. The switch passed the test without a hitch, but it was REAL hot. Only the cheap CD player that was used for on-hold music failed...

btrain2871

Question.. I went to shutdown my standby 8710 server yesterday via maint page. It forced me to busy out the server before it shutdown which worked; However, when I went to shutdown the primary/active server it wouldn't shutdown because it says it was in 'active' state. I couldn't busy it out either. Is referenced doing a shutdown -f but where would you do that???? What's the proper way to get both servers shutdown?