[CentOS] apcupsd, odd behavior

[Toby Bluhm]

On 2/8/2013 2:26 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Toby Bluhm wrote:
>> On 2/8/2013 1:23 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>> Craig White wrote:
>>>> service apcupsd status
>>>>
>>>> (or cat /var/log/apcupsd.events)
>>>>
>>> Already posted the latter; the former, hey, neat results, excerpted
>>> here:
>>> MODEL    : Smart-UPS 3000 RM
>>> STATUS   : SHUTTING DOWN
>>> LINEV    : 118.0 Volts
>>> LOADPCT  :  55.9 Percent Load Capacity
>>> BCHARGE  : 100.0 Percent
>>> TIMELEFT :  10.0 Minutes
>>> <...>
>>> TONBATT  : 0 seconds
>>> CUMONBATT: 27 seconds
>>>
>>
>> You can specify in the conf file that shutdown occurs when it hits X
>> minutes of runtime left - "MINUTES" should be the parameter. You're at
>> 10.0 minutes left & if you have it set to something 10.0 or greater,
>> it's probably gonna want to shutdown immediately at any AC power loss.
>
> I'm afraid you've missed the whole beginning of this thread - I suggest
> you read it. I know what you were saying; it's the response of apcupsd to
> a power blip this morning that's the issue: as much as these servers draw,
> there's no way that the UPS is out of power in 3 seconds.
>

I'm not saying it's out of battery power. I'm saying you may be telling 
it to shutdown when it has, by it's own calculations, 10 minutes of 
battery run time left. I believe the default is 3 or 5 in apcupsd.conf.