redundancy test

[europe]

Hi All,

Every now and then I runnin to customers that would like to test the redundancy options of their ESS or LSP, and even S8700 Server Pairs.
And lets nnot forget the High Available systems.

Now I trust these systems, but these customers invent the most strage test plans.
Does anybody out there have a doc from avaya which describes how to test these systems in a controlled way... without pulling power or ethernet plugs... in such a way the system is not majorly harmed

Kind regards,

Edwin

Please let me know if the information that was provided is helpfull.
Edwin Plat
A.K.A. Europe

 

[demanding]

Nothing documented but when we test, our network engineer would put a block on the voice path between locations.

 

[JayNEC]

Pulling ethernet plugs doesn't harm anything. It's a good way to simulate an outage of a given device without actually powering it down hard. it also makes it easy to quickly bring things back up, making the simulated outage short.

It's a Bad Idea to hard power off servers of any sort.

New England Communications

http://www.necomm.com