[CentOS] apcupsd, odd behavior

Fri Feb 8 16:12:43 UTC 2013
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

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.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com