For many/most they just use the built in (uh.. does 2k have built in?)
UPS software in Windows rather than the Powerchute third party stuff.
I just know that Powerchute had an expired Java cert in their program
and brought servers to their knees a year or so ago making symptoms like
DNS issues. So when it doubt.... pull it off.
Noah Eiger wrote:
Hi -
Thanks for the links, Susan. Yes, those are the errors regarding Exchange /
AD and the FRS errors seem to have gone away.
The UPS is a good one to point to. The only thing that has changed is that
we replaced the UPS. Ah ha, you might say. We had a UPS on this for years,
but it did not run APC's PowerChute. That battery started beeping, and we
installed the application. Then the UPS died. This is a new battery and new
UPS. Do you know of any incompatibilities with APC's PowerChute? PowerChute
does not show anything out of the ordinary around the time of the crashes.
Finally, someone asked what was on the screen. I did not see it because I
was not on site. The person who did the restart for me said the screen was
blank. The screen is on a KVM.
Regardless, I am calling Dell today.
Thanks.
-- nme
-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 9:17 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] SBS Dies Twice in Four Days
[I don't mean really blank.. I just mean that they don't point to
anything useful blank]
Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote:
As a generalization.... if the Microsoft O/S event logs are blank the
issue tends to be hardware related (and those are the hardest ones to
nail down at times)
Eric Fleischman wrote:
Can you give us some data? Like, when it dies, what do you see? Is
death a blue screen? Or something else?
*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Noah Eiger
*Sent:* Wednesday, December 13, 2006 10:39 PM
*To:* ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
*Subject:* [ActiveDir] SBS Dies Twice in Four Days
Hi –
I have a client with a four-year old SBS 2000 SP4 install on a Dell
PowerEdge 2500. In the last four days, the machine has simply died --
twice. I can find no obvious (or not so obvious) cause for this.
There appears little that correlates directly with the crashes. The
event logs are pretty clear of major errors (except below). The Open
Manage software does not show any hardware problems. The drives are
somewhat fragmented but not horribly.
The few errors that show up include this: Shortly before Saturday’s
crash, the FRS log recorded a 13568 JRNL_WRAP_ERROR. Since this is
the only DC in this domain, I followed the steps provided to set the
“Enabled Journal Wrap Automatic Restore” key to 1. This appeared to
have cleared the error. This error has not recurred.
Also, Exchange has logged some errors such as 2104 and 8197 which
seem associated with access to the GC. When I followed the steps in
MSKB 828764, I do not find any entries in the registry keys listed
which are supposed to refer to the GC.
Either way, I am not sure those would bring down a server – twice.
Sorry if this is rambling a bit. I have been looking at this for
several hours and don’t seem to be making any headway. Any thoughts
welcome. The server is up now (after a hard reboot), but I’ve got to
feel comfortable with leaving this server for a week – or my earlier
post about laptop batteries will be meaningless ;-)
TIA
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