service apcupsd status
(or cat /var/log/apcupsd.events)
Craig
On Feb 8, 2013, at 9:54 AM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:54 AM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> As we have every day, we had a power blip overnight. one, at least, of
>>>>> the servers connected to a SmartUPS via cable, announced that "power
>>>>> exhausted, initiating shutdown" (which I've disabled).
>>>>>
>>>>> The thing is, I know the servers on that UPS draw a ridiculous amount
>>>>> of power, but I don't see that on the others... and this was three
>>>>> seconds, not minutes, after it announced there was a power outage.
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone else seen this behavior?
>>>>
>>>> You mean UPS's behaving badly? Yes, they break like everything else,
>>>> especially the batteries.
>>>
>>> Nah, I think it's something with apcupsd.
>>
>> Doesn't it log the message as received from the UPS? It if has a
>> network interface you should be get messages via syslog, email, snmp,
>> etc., and there is probably a web interface with status showing
>> expected battery capacity at the current load.
>
> The entire contents of that incident. I see nothing in messages.
>
> 2013-02-07 17:38:19 -0500 Power failure.
> 2013-02-07 17:38:21 -0500 Battery power exhausted.
> 2013-02-07 17:38:21 -0500 Initiating system shutdown!
> 2013-02-07 17:38:21 -0500 User logins prohibited
> 2013-02-07 17:38:23 -0500 Power is back. UPS running on mains.
> 2013-02-07 17:38:23 -0500 Allowing logins
>
> Two seconds?
>
> mark
>
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