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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Mysterious Server Shutdown Post 302095516 by Just Ice on Wednesday 8th of November 2006 12:35:07 AM
Old 11-08-2006
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Originally Posted by buechler66
Virtually no UNIX admin experience. Any admin duties are shared by several folks with no special training. Today we had our Sun v880 server, running Solaris 5.8, shutdown for no apparent reason.

When we checked on server we found it completely powered down, yet still connected to a fully charged UPS. When we booted the system back up a few of the file systems required FSCHK be run on them. Other then that...no damage done.

Can anyone point us to any system logs that might give us some insight as to why our server shutdown?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
if people have easy physical access to the server, i wouldn't be surprised if somebody hit the power button or kicked/loosened the power cords by "accident" ... if the server is within a secure facility, check who has access and who would have been in the room at the time of the powerdown ...

also, check for ventilation --- make sure the server did not get too hot and there is nothing obstructing the ventilation fans ...

i'm more inclined to say that a finger or a foot touched the server based on what you have written but there would be no way to confirm that if you can't prove somebody was in the same room as the server when it went down ...


good luck!
 

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