Re: apcupsd, odd behavior

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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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