On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:54 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > >>> As we have every day, we had a power blip overnight. one, at least, of >>> the servers connected to a SmartUPS via cable, announced that "power >>> exhausted, initiating shutdown" (which I've disabled). >>> >>> The thing is, I know the servers on that UPS draw a ridiculous amount of >>> power, but I don't see that on the others... and this was three seconds, >>> not minutes, after it announced there was a power outage. >>> >>> Has anyone else seen this behavior? >> >> You mean UPS's behaving badly? Yes, they break like everything else, >> especially the batteries. > > Nah, I think it's something with apcupsd. Doesn't it log the message as received from the UPS? It if has a network interface you should be get messages via syslog, email, snmp, etc., and there is probably a web interface with status showing expected battery capacity at the current load. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com