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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Great story! Metalink down caused inhouse crash
At my last project, we were putting in OraFin and we had a team of Oracle
consultants doing up the front-end setup stuff (populating screens, etc).
Well, one day, I get this panicked call that "the system" was down. Well,
of course, that was silly. The system was up just fine,
thank-you-very-much, and the database was fine, and even "my" version of the
app was just fine-and-dandy. This reminded me of the old lightbulb joke ("I
got one over here just like it and it works fine for me"), so I tried to log
in as the user from "my" app, and it worked fine. I went upstairs, and
sure-nuf, she couldn't log in and couldn't log in. She *swore* she had
never logged onto Unix and had never changed *anything* except data, and it
was working fine til 9:15 then boom! Well, after awhile, I ran out of ideas
and tried to log a TAR, and, as you can tell from the subject line, Metalink
was down. It was down all morning, and started coming up slowly around 1pm.
When I was finally able to enter the text of the TAR, I was just about to
log the TAR and my phone rang with a "Gee, you fixed it, thank you!". Well,
*that* was a bit too much of a coincidence for me. Well, the upshot of the
whole thing was that, for whatever reason, in their setups, they wanted the
actual Oracle splash page to come up instead of the one that ships with
OraFin and one of their in-house experts who had since disappeared had
hardcoded in the server that hosted Metalink into the app.
And the really great thing was when I took out the reference to that machine leaving the default splash screen as was, they didn't even notice. What a day that was!
Bambi.
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 11:24 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
I think it had nothing to do with support contract ... this morning it looks like (from reports so far) there was probably a hiccup at metablink ... I experienced the same, but was back in, in about 10 seconds.
Raj
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 10:20 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
I'm in. Are you sure that your support contract has not expired?
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