Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread m . roth
Colin Coles wrote: On Friday 01 July 2011 15:25, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Colin Coles wrote: On Friday 01 July 2011 12:05, Timothy Murphy wrote: Any advice or suggestions gratefully received. If you are thinking of the UPS route a caveat: I have several HP servers and most of them

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] Power-outage From: m.r...@5-cent.us To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Friday, July 01, 2011 9:28:21 AM Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Colin Coles wrote: On Friday 01 July 2011 12:05, Timothy Murphy wrote: Any advice

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Colin Coles
On Friday 01 July 2011 15:38, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Question: are we talking server-grade systems, rackmounts? I can't imagine that they'd do that for consumer-grade machines. DL385 G7 rackmounts, wonderfull machines otherwise. Colin. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread m . roth
Blake Hudson wrote: From: m.r...@5-cent.us Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Colin Coles wrote: On Friday 01 July 2011 12:05, Timothy Murphy wrote: Any advice or suggestions gratefully received. If you are thinking of the UPS route a caveat: I have several HP servers and most of them will not

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 1 Jul 2011 09:23:31 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Robert Heller wrote: At Fri, 1 Jul 2011 12:26:10 +0100 (BST) CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Timothy Murphy wrote: I have a CentOS-5.6 remote

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:25:33 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Colin Coles wrote: On Friday 01 July 2011 12:05, Timothy Murphy wrote: Any advice or suggestions gratefully received. If you are thinking of the UPS route a caveat: I have several HP servers and most

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] Power-outage From: m.r...@5-cent.us To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Friday, July 01, 2011 9:57:41 AM Blake Hudson wrote: From: m.r...@5-cent.us Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Colin Coles wrote: On Friday 01 July 2011 12

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Thomas Harold
On 7/1/2011 10:59 AM, Robert Heller wrote: APC UPSes are supported by apcupsd. Other brands, not so much. Some (read: cheaper models) have their own special protocol and don't include Linux support. These solutions are intended for the cheaper or otherwise 'unsupported' UPSes. It *sounds*

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 7/1/2011 10:59 AM, Robert Heller wrote: APC UPSes are supported by apcupsd. Other brands, not so much. Some (read: cheaper models) have their own special protocol and don't include Linux support. These solutions are intended for the cheaper or

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread m . roth
Blake Hudson wrote: From: m.r...@5-cent.us Blake Hudson wrote: From: m.r...@5-cent.us Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Colin Coles wrote: On Friday 01 July 2011 12:05, Timothy Murphy wrote: Any advice or suggestions gratefully received. If you are thinking of the UPS route a caveat: I have

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread m . roth
Brunner, Brian T. wrote: centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 7/1/2011 10:59 AM, Robert Heller wrote: APC UPSes are supported by apcupsd. Other brands, not so much. Some (read: cheaper models) have their own special protocol and don't include Linux support. These solutions are intended for

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Brunner, Brian T. bbrun...@gai-tronics.com wrote: NO UPS MADE TODAY (according to my reading of the stats on advertisements) eats lightning strikes and asks for more. So per your experiences and greater technical savvy: What PSU/PC kill power irregularities

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 1 Jul 2011 11:46:40 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 7/1/2011 10:59 AM, Robert Heller wrote: APC UPSes are supported by apcupsd. Other brands, not so much. Some (read: cheaper models) have their own special protocol and

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Timothy Murphy
Rudi Ahlers wrote: It seems to me that it should be possible to have a simple, torch-battery operated, system which will keep the machine alive long enough to make a graceful exit. A UPS would be your simplest option here since the UPS can send a signal to the OS to shutdown properly.

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 7/1/2011 12:36 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: It seems to me that it should be possible to have a simple, torch-battery operated, system which will keep the machine alive long enough to make a graceful exit. A UPS would be your simplest option here since the UPS can send a

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:36:56 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: It seems to me that it should be possible to have a simple, torch-battery operated, system which will keep the machine alive long enough to make a graceful exit. A UPS would be

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Brunner, Brian T. wrote: centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: And the APC Smart-UPS 750 units are not all that expensive either. Even the 1500VA units are a lot less expensive then they were 5-10 years ago. $250-$300 to protect $2000-$6000 worth of hardware

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Jim Nelson
On 7/1/2011 1:02 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Brunner, Brian T. wrote: centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: And the APC Smart-UPS 750 units are not all that expensive either. Even the 1500VA units are a lot less expensive then they were 5-10 years ago.

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 7/1/11, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: It seems to me that it should be possible to have a simple, torch-battery operated, system which will keep the machine alive long enough to make a graceful exit. A full-blown UPS would be excessive, I think, as I only want the machine to

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 7/1/11, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:25:33 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Colin Coles wrote: perhaps naively, I'm surprised: doesn't this mean they put crappy PSUs in those servers? I thought decent PSUs were expected to deal with

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Christopher Chan
On Friday, July 01, 2011 11:46 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 7/1/2011 10:59 AM, Robert Heller wrote: APC UPSes are supported by apcupsd. Other brands, not so much. Some (read: cheaper models) have their own special protocol and don't include Linux

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