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Hobbit -vs- BB4

list Jason Altrincham Jones
Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:37:59 -0000
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I wonder how long Unicenter or whatever it's called would have taken to
even load the status page over a 56k.  But ye very good time for it to
happen, as far as a complete network failure can be called a good time.

Have they told you when they plan to make their decision on this issue?
Jason.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:user-cf452ff334e0@xymon.invalid] Sent: 07 March 2007 21:15
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit -vs- BB4

One might call that serendipity.

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:52:18PM -0000, Jones, Jason (Altrincham)
wrote:
Henrik have you had your meeting with the phbs about this yet?
I have, but nothing has been decided yet.

However, I am now certain that some deity has been busy working in
my favour. 5 minutes before the meeting ended, cell phones started
beeping around the meeting room - and this turned out to be the beginning of the biggest disruption of service our datacenter has ever had. Several events conspired against us, but the result was
a near 100% loss of all network connectivity on our core backbone
network, and to our Internet connectivity.

So I had lots of time to demonstrate - also to the PHB's - that
monitoring with a simple webpage works, even when you access it
over a 56 kbit dialup connection through a cell phone. I had quite an audience throughout the afternoon, evening and night.

So I think the odds are in my favour right now.


Regards,
Henrik

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