APC ups devices are supported by the apcupsd daemon in Astlinux. It may need a little additional tweaking to take care of the completely clean shutdown, but the framework is there. I may take a look at adding a more generic UPS daemon perhaps with some ability to trigger other network devices on power fail events, but it's down quite a ways on the todo list.
Darrick Ron Byer Jr. wrote: > Joseph, > > I can concur with Darrick says, from a practical sense as well. I treat it > like a toaster... I pull the plug all the time on test boxes. I probably > have not done so while a vm was being captured, but I've never seen a > problem with fs consistency on restart. > > In reality, the configuration will change very infrequently in relation to > the probability of a power loss at the same time. > > You could also put a small UPS on the device. With the low power > consumption, it could probably keep it running (probably doing nothing) for > an extended period. Also could probably find a driver for the UPS port to > get the power-fail notice from the UPS and do a clean shutdown. This > paragraph seems like overkill to me, however (at least until I get bit). > > I run a cron job which tars up the kd and logs once a day, and scp's the > tarball to a remote box. That way, if one of the devices does go belly up. I > can deploy a new one pretty quickly with no loss of information. > > Hope this helps, > > > Ron Byer Jr. > NetWeave Integrated Solutions, Inc. > +1.732.786.8830 x120 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Darrick Hartman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:48 PM > To: AstLinux Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] 0.6.1 > > Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>> I don't see the kd getting that much use that would make that an issue. > Most >>> of the traffic that it sees (voicemails) will still take 7-10 years to > wear >>> out the CF card. >> Ron, >> With your setup, what happens if the power is disrupted w/o a clean > shutdown? >> Will the system simply restart and continue, I assume the volume with the >> config is susceptible to corruption, or is that handled gracefully? > Loosing vm's >> is not an issue for me, but needing manual intervention on the pbx is. > > Joseph, > > Both the ASTKD and ASTURW (key disk and unionfs) partitions are checked > by fsck at boot time. As long as there are no serious problems, no > manual intervention is required. If there are serious disk problems you > may need to do manual intervention, but this is not different than what > you would see with other distributions and storage systems. In most > cases, there are no problems although clean shutdowns are preferred. > > Darrick -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com Small Business IT Specialists ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
