On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Richard Ford wrote:
> I did a straight cut and paste of the APC config section from the readme
> file that Charlie made.
My (limited) experience is that each model of UPS is different so this may
not work. Running powstatd -t should have made it clear which, if any,
begining state setting you needed to change.
> I will investigate further. The 5 min shutdown is a good clue to help test
> it now. I had nothing to drain any power and I thought "Oh god this could
> take ages!!" :)
In powstatd test mode you should see the state change from ON to FAIL
within a minute of removing power to the UPS. If you don't you need to
adjust settings and test again.
On one UPS I configured (the cheapest signalling APC), the final state
change to LOW was never signalled. Unless your UPS battery is in terrible
shape this isn't much of a problem tho as the system will shutdown within
5 minutes (by default IIRC).
I realise my howto isn't really the most refined document. It is more
of a 'howididit' rather than a 'howto' :-) If I've missed anything out
please let me know and I'll update it.
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