On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Ariz Jacinto wrote:

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> >>On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 12:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> >>>anybody has hacked UPS circuitry to make it shutdown (even without a
> >>>power
> >>>failure) when a signal is given thru the serial port?
> >>>all upses that shutdown when a signal is raised only do so in a (mains)
> >>>power failure.
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> so you want to shutdown the UPS whenever a major power
> failure occurs, but have you cared about the machines
> plugged into that UPS? =) the machines should go first
> before the UPS.
>

Well, that's exactly what STONITH is supposed to do.

STONITH = Shoot The Other Node In The Head

It's used for applications like shared storage systems where a scsi disk
is shared by 2 scsi controllers.  Only one controller should be active at
a time (or you end up with an unuseable file system), so when one node
goes active it needs to.... "Shoot The Other Node In The Head"


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