Power Loss Interrupts IT Services
dwaldron April 10th, 2009
Morgan Hall lost electric power at approximately 10:17 p.m. on Thursday, February 9. Battery units provide power to our servers under these circumstances, but they can do so only for a short period of time. (Less than two hours.) The purpose of these battery units is to provide the Digital Infrastructure (DI) group the opportunity to shutdown our servers in an orderly way. Should the servers lose power during normal operation they can be damaged and/or data can be lost. DI staff members arrived on campus shortly after the power failure and were able to shutdown the great majority of servers before the battery units were drained. Power was restored in the early morning hours. By 4:45 a.m. most IT services had been reinitiated, though some problems stemming from the power failure persisted until 10:00 a.m. OIT is grateful to John McCreight and Mike Naylor who worked throughout the early morning to restore IT services to the campus community.