Troubleshooting
Recovering From a Power Failure
Recovering From a Power Failure
For Systems With a Backup Power Supply
If your site is equipped with a backup power supply, system memory will be preserved in the event of power failure. However, because your X.25 hardware does not have backup capability, any
Recovery from a power failure is automatic when the /etc/powerfail script is invoked by /etc/inittab. Otherwise SAM (or x25init) must be used to manually
The recovery mechanism informs the X.25 driver of the power failure.
The X.25 driver then “marks” the interface as “down” and a
DISCONNECT INDICATE is received on all open SVCs.
For Systems With No Backup Power Supply
If your system does not possess the battery backup option, both system memory and interface card memory are lost. You must reboot your system.
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