any good UPS for a Fedora server
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Mon Nov 19 20:19:58 UTC 2007
Mike wrote:
> I get 3+ hours of run time from this combination (RS1500 plus external
> BR24BP battery):
>
> http://reviews.compusa.com/2795/568415/reviews.htm
>
> The measured power consumption of the singler server that this backs up
> is only 115 watts, pretty low generally speaking.
>
> I use a usb cable between the RS1500 and the server. I've configured
> apcupsd to page me when several different events happen, power out,
> power restored etc.
>
> The downside of the RS1500 and apcupsd is that 9 times out of 10 it
> triggers a shutdown long before the battery is even close to exhausted.
> To prevent this I replaced the shutdown script with a script that does
> nothing. Never did find a more elegant solution.
>
> In any case this may not be the UPS for you but this works well for me.
> Someone can almsost always get to the server if the "Power restored"
> page doesn't come in within 2 hours of power out...
>
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Ali, Saqib wrote:
>
I had this issue and found that I had to run a calibration of the APC
UPS to get the timing right. I cannot remember how I did it.
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Robin Laing
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