Unexpected Power failure... 1

[Tanya556]

Hello,

I had a power failure sometime last night on my Server2003. I'm sure this is a rooky question but I can't seem to remember how to distinguish when was the actual power failure in the event viewing log.

Does anyone know and easier way to log power failures?

Thank you in advance

 

[58sniper]

There will be an event in the System event log when the server comes back up. If you look BEFORE then, you will see where the last previous logged event was. Server was down during the time betweek those (roughly).

Of course, best practices is to have a UPS, and have it logging events, including when the power goes out (UPS on battery), etc.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

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[Tanya556]

Thank you! I have 5 servers on my server rack and it does have a UPS, only one server is doing the power failure. It did do this once before. Trying to pin-point where the issue is. Don't know if its the UPS or that one server power supply.

Thank you again

 

[Tanya556]

I found it...

I filtered Event ID #6008 The previous system shutdown at 2:13:36 AM on mm/dd/yyyy was unexpected.