Okay, here's another weird one for you-all:

Early this morning (about 1:30AM EST), our HP3000 918 went down. 
Since I'm down here in El Paso and the computer is in Ohio, all 
I could tell was that the 3000 was down, but all the other network 
devices (like the router and PC's on the other side of the network) 
were up.  Since the router is physically in the same cabinet as 
the 3000, I expected the worst.  So I had to call out my assistant 
and have her drive in to work and check things out.  What she 
found was the 3000 sitting there with nary an LED lit.  I mean 
everything was dead, and I don't mean D-E-A-D as in the cute 
display you get when the system crashes, but DEAD as in not one 
electron was flowing through the old circuits.  Even the UPS 
had no power.  I had my assistant check some things (like make 
sure that there was power to everything else, and making sure 
that the switch was in the "on" position, etc.).  What fixed 
it was pulling the plug out of the wall and re-inserting it. 
Now our computer is a 220 VAC model, and the plug is one of 
those twist-lock types, so the plug didn't fall out, nor was 
it even loose when she checked it.  But just breaking and 
making the connection again was enough to restore power.

So what say ye?  Did some nefarious soul purposely unplug 
my faithful 3000?  What could cause the system to go down 
(in what I *assume* was a power fail) when it was still 
plugged in?  Obviously the circuit breaker wasn't tripped 
or just unplugging and plugging it in again wouldn't have 
done a thing.  Is this something I can check on after the 
fact via the system log files?

Thanks for any assistance you can give me.

Oh, and Lars, I did not report this to the HPRC, because 
we only have Monday through Friday, 8-5 support. :-)

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