I’m monitoring this with interest.

If I issue a shutdown to the global zone on the server, will the zones have had 
the chance to do a  graceful shutdown before the global zone shuts down?

Gareth

> On 5 Jun 2016, at 06:47, John Croix <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for all of the cool suggestions. Looks like I have several 
> opportunities to explore. Since I have a RPi running dnsmasq and pound, I 
> might go with that approach (RPi sending shutdown command to the global zone 
> via ssh). I could cleanly shut the RPi down, too, which would be nice 
> considering that I've already had issues with the memory card and ungrateful 
> reboots.
> 
> Regards,
> John
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On Jun 3, 2016, at 10:40 PM, John Croix <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm currently sitting in the dark in my house without power, pondering the 
>> need for an automatic means to shutdown my SmartOS server. When power went 
>> off, I raced upstairs to manually shut it down prior to draining the UPS, 
>> and I'd like to avoid a repeat scenario.
>> 
>> It seems like the best way to do this might be to have a dedicated LX zone 
>> that runs the APC UPS daemon software. I can use it to touch a file when 
>> required, and, in the global zone, monitor the file system for the presence 
>> of that file. When the file appears, a power off command is issued. I just 
>> need to be able to have the local zone access the UPS via USB connection. 
>> Access to the LX file system from the global zone for monitoring is 
>> obviously not an issue.
>> 
>> In short, I need to find out how to do the following:
>>  Determine which device in the global zone the UPS is attached to via USB 
>> cable
>>  Pass the device down to a local zone (I assume via some zonecfg commands)
>>  Determine which device to point the daemon to in the local zone
>> Can anybody provide some info concerning the above issues?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> John
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
> 
> 

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