Our company has pretty well standardized on the XTM-5 box for our router/gateway systems.
With over 20 sites it is nice to have similar layouts and support from within our company can usually give us a hand on most of the problems for our networks.
I am one of the remote support techs. In most cases I am giving the guys a hand.
This morning however it became my turn to deal with the "support" services of Watchguard.
I have an XTM-5 that was installed in March of this year. It was dead this monday morning. NO Lights, No Fans and NO data was flowing.
I attempted a reboot. Nothing.
I Pulled it from the rack and threw in the old 550e box... This limited the switching services, but for the main part it got my office back running.
I took the XTM-5 downstairs and tried to fire it up again... NOTHING.
I contacted the watchguard support by phone and...