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One server, Two APC UPS on redundant power supplies : How to trigger shutdown?

I have a server racked and its redundant power supplies plugged in two APC Smart-UPS 3000 XLM. Each UPS is connected to two different mains power sources. Two instances of apcupsd are running, each one connected to its own UPS. They can both detect…
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Is umount -f on non-nfs volume always evil?

Edit: Executive summary (--verbose version below): I need a machine to shut down quickly in a power outage due to short battery life. Is there any reason I should not use 'umount -f' (embedded in a power-failure-case script) on a scratch drive…
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APC UPS replace battery light and apcupsd reporting "replace battery"

We have an APC Smart UPS 1500. The "Replace Battery" light is on, and apcupsd reports: Emergency! Batteries have failed on UPS xxxx. Change them NOW However, from this article,…
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Smart UPS 2200 & Windows 2008 R2 with Hyper-V

We are setting up a new Windows 2008 R2 server and I am trying to get it to listen to the attached UPS and shut itself down gracefully when there is an outage. Unfortunately, the included PowerChute Business refuses to install because it noticed…
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libvirt - Restart VMs after return from power failure?

Is there any way to make KVM automatically restart any VMs that have been shut down due to power failure? Here is my scenario: I run a small VM tank, mostly with development VMs on it. I now have a VM that is set to autostart on system boot, which…
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apcupsd vs NUT in Proxmox environment

I have a Proxmox node which is actually is HP Proliant DL 320e G8 server + APC SmartUPS 750 connected directly to the server by usb cable. On the host are running several Linux VMs. My question is - which software are better for graceful shutdown…
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Slave APCUPSD issuing killpower

I am using an APC BackUPS Pro to run two machines. One is critical and is connected directly to the UPS as the master and the other machine is not so important and is connected via the NIS as a slave. As I understand it, if a machine is shutdown by…
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Running apcupsd on server core 2012?

Is it possible to run acpupsd on server core 2012? I went out and bought some Back-UPS (with USB cable signalling) to run some Hyper-V servers before I realized "that wont work" :-) Back-UPS are not supported by Business Edition, which does support…
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How to shut down Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 from acpupsd?

I have several computers connected to a single APC SmartUPS 1500. The UPS status is monitored by a server running acpupsd. The other computers also have apcupsd installed, and poll the main computer over the network to get the UPS status, and they…
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apcupsd commok event fires where there was no commfailure

I have an openSUSE Tumbleweed host connected by USB to an APC Back-UPS NS1080G. For the most part everything works fine and apcupsd keeps track of the status. But lately every few weeks it fires the commok event without having fired the…
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Server keep restarting after reaching 'starting web server'

Recently one of our server failed and wont start services. I looked over the /var/log/messages and found this: Dec 27 00:53:48 localhost apcupsd[3413]: apcupsd FATAL ERROR in linux-usb.c at line 609 Cannot find UPS device -- For a link to detailed…
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Is ScriptAlias needed in Apache 2 if the path is defined in conf.d?

I've installing apcupsd in a fresh installation of CentOS 7 that is running Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS). I installed the CGI status for apcupsd, but I continue to get the error message when attempting to access the page from another…
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apcupsd not working properly on centos 5

I have APC UPS and my servers are directly connected to it using power cable. I want to use network link to shutdown servers when ups goes on batter. the following is my config file. ## apcupsd.conf v1.1 ## # # for apcupsd release 3.14.10 (13…
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apcupsd doesn't show voltage with "SmartUPS 1000 LCD"

I'm trying to config apcupsd on my Ubuntu 10.04 Server, I've got an "APC Smart UPS 1000 LCD" connected via USB ( Bus 003 Device 003: ID 051d:0003 American Power Conversion UPS ). My apcupsd.conf file highlights: UPSCABLE usb UPSTYPE usb DEVICE And…
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nut ups master and slave across different networks

I have set up a NUT master and slave and they work great when on the same LAN. Does anyone know if it possible to set them up across different networks? I can't find any reference to this anywhere when searching online and no one has been able to…
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