[Imc-tech] Re: [Imc] Please don't touch the patch panel.

[Brian Hagy]

urbana lost power on friday.  when this happened, the backup power supply
died, thus the router was lost for a while.  in order to compensate for
this, the production room computers were put in direct connection to the
dsl until the router could be reset (and plugged back into the backup
power supply....however this won't happen since the backup power supply
somehow got fried).  it was never intentional that the production room
computers remain directly connected to the dsl.  it was only an interim
solution.  sorry about any confusion. my fault for not circulating this
information to everyone.

brian



On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Sascha Meinrath wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> The IMC's intranet has been growing and getting increasingly complex over
> the last year.  As such it requires more expertise to troubleshoot
> problems that arise on our network.  Solutions that worked before might
> have unintended consequences.  As such, please do not attempt to change
> the configuration of the patch panel if you are not absolutely sure what
> you are doing.  We've had several problems with computers and phones
> getting disconnected in the last week because people have incorrectly
> configured the system.  Even more importantly, if you do know what you are
> doing and do change the panel's configuration, it is absolutely imperative
> (to preserving our techies remaining sanity) that you let the tech
> collective know of the changes you've instituted.
>
> So, please do not mess with the patch panel unless you know exactly what
> you're doing; and please e-mail the tech working group <tech at ucimc.org> if
> you do make any changes.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Sascha
>
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