On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:43 AM, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at 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 at 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.