On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:43 AM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 18:41 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Joseph L. Casale JCasale@activenetwerx.com wrote:
I need to do a simulated power failure, to verify that it will in fact shutdown the box after 2 minutes!
Plug the PC into a stable power source, let the same PC monitor the UPS. Unplug the UPS and place a load on it, watch what it instructs the PC to do :)
I plugged the UPS into a surge protector and after awhile, I cut the
OOPS!? It used to be that the manual for all the UPSs I've used said to _not_ plug it into a surge suppressor, IIRC. Has that changed? It had something to do with the wave form from the suppressor vs. the box's monitoring circuitry.
You are correct. Normally, each of our UPS is plugged directly into a wall outlet. I plugged mine into a surge protector, to do the simulated power failure for to see if it would shutdown the box.
I don't think that has anything to do with not shutting down though.
Either the WinPower SW will not shut down the box after 2 minutes or there is something unclear to me about the settings. I read their documentation again and everything is set to their default settings, which looks like it should shut down the box after a 2 minute power failure. <snip> This was a lesson for me, about the many advantages of Open Source, rather than Proprietary SW. When I looked at the contents of the tarball and saw a lot of JRE stuff, and no Source code, I was disappointed. They wrote it, they sold it to a bunch of companies that make UPS, but they do not support it. No community. Probably the only other Proprietary SW I have installed is Google's Picasa and Earth, but they have Community, if one should have a problem, which I haven't had.