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on 11/15/2014 06:47 PM Daniel Frey wrote the following: |
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> On 11/14/2014 10:53 AM, Thanasis wrote: |
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>> I have an APC SC620I, which in case of power failure, it successfully |
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>> initiates a shutdown to the connected (via SMART cable) PC, but if the |
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>> mains power returns, the UPS does not recycle the power to the PC, and |
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>> consequently the PC stays off. |
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>> Regardless if the mains power returns soon after the UPS has initiated a |
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>> shutdown to the PC, shouldn't the UPS recycle the power anyway, so that |
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>> the PC comes back on as set in BIOS? |
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> I assume that your PC shuts off thus reducing the load - and, of course, |
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> this increases the runtime of the remaining battery so the UPS never |
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> actually shuts down? |
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> I don't think you can get apcupsd in any case to cycle the outlet |
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> groups, but you can try a couple things. |
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> First, is apcupsd even sending the signal to shutdown the UPS? |
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> /etc/init.d/apcupsd.powerfail needs to be added to the shutdown runlevel: |
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> `rc-update add apcupsd.powerfail shutdown` |
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I have even tried to run the command "/sbin/apcupsd --killpower" from a |
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root terminal (while in default runlevel, after manually creating the |
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file /etc/apcupsd/powerfail) and nothing happened. |
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> At the end of the shutdown this is run and it tells the UPS to power |
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> off. If you have multiple PCs this should be enabled on the slowest to |
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> shutdown to make sure it doesn't kill a machine still shutting down. |
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>> Am I missing something in the configuration or the daemons that should |
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>> be running? |
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>> (Running sys-power/apcupsd-3.14.8-r2) |
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>> /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf folows: |
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>> KILLDELAY 0 |
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> If the above fails (if the above does indeed fail, some troubleshooting |
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> should happen to try to figure out why it doesn't work), KILLDELAY is |
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> the parameter you likely seek, but it is dangerous. If you set this it |
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> will wait x seconds after a shutdown was requested and forcibly shut |
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> down the UPS power. |
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> However, in the even that power is restored between the UPS kill and the |
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> time it actually turns off the mains will still not be cycled. |
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Why would this be so? |
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> But |
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> theoretically this window should be pretty small. |
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> Dan |
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