Our Maxen don't crash, so much as just stop routing. We can telnet to
them and reboot them remotely, no prob. It's just that when this
behavior manifests, there's no way to conveniently monitor it.
Marty Nix
mnix@ispalliance.net
ISPA Tech Support
Alex.Bligh wrote:
>
> > On that note, the OSPF failure would be a lot less annoying if there was
> > anyone have it monitored. We have automatic monitors on every machine on
> > our network and know within 2 minutes if anything goes down, but when a MAX
> > stops routing, we don't know until a customer complains or we do a manual
> > check of each one.
>
> As do we. And terminal servers on the console port in remote POPs.
> But if they crash, continue to accept calls (or at least answer
> them), and don't come back alive again, and their console port
> says "{{{ { {{{ {{{" and that's about it, there's not much you
> can do except get the line busied out and send someone to power
> cycle them. Sigh. May be time for remote power cycling equipment.
> I hope when Ascend designed the TNT they had an independent
> watchdog timer to take care of probems like this (cf Cisco).
>
> Alex Bligh
> Xara Networks
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