UPS monitoring

[McDougall, Marshall (FSH)]

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>[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Joey Prestia
>Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 12:41 AM
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>Subject: UPS monitoring
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>Hello,
>
>Does anyone know if on a RHEL 5 system I need to install the 
>apcupsd to 
>monitor my UPS when I installed I noticed an icon on the desktop and 
>that apparently knows the system is on battery backup. But yesterday 
>when power went out I cant find anything in my logs I have a APC 
>Back-UPS 1500VA and used to install apcupsd when i was running 
>Mandriva 
>to take care of shutting down the system properly. I am 
>curious if RHEL 
>5 has a program to handle this.
>
>Thanks Joey
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Have a look at /etc/inittab.  In my all of my RH servers it has:

# When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes
# of power left.  Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now.
# This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your
# UPS connected and working correctly.  
pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting
Down"

# If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.
pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown
Cancelled"

I'm fairly certain that RH5 still has this.  It may point you to where
you need to look.

Regards, Marshall