On 7/25/19 9:11 PM, mark wrote: > hw wrote: >> On 7/25/19 4:07 PM, Giles Coochey wrote: > <snip> >>> Sounds like you're performing maintenance on your servers >>> >>> >>> (a) too often >>> (b) during office / peak hours >>> >> >> I can't help it when the primary name server goes down because the UPS >> fails the self test and tells the server it has 2 minutes or so left in >> wich case the server figures it needs to shut down. I wanted better UPSs >> ... > <snip> > Change that. Are you using apcupsd? You can set the config from > SHUTDOWN=/sbin/shutdown to /bin/false. Then, the next time you see the > UPS, change the battery. If it's just started to complain, it's not dead > yet! > > Works for me with all of our mostly APC SmartUPS 3000 rackmounts. I don't remember which UPS it was, either the crappy one for which a replacement battery was already waiting to be put in, or the normal one that already had a new battery in it which is either broken or doesn't get charged ... That's how I rather have not everything go dark even when Murphy comes along. I have generally deprecated all non-rackmount UPSs, and being able to change batteries without outage has become a requirement.