Re: hard crash despite UPS

[Mike Dresser <mdresser_l@windsormachine.com>]

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, nate wrote:

> I had a couple APC units with the SNMP cards, used APC Network shutdown
> on the systems, worked pretty well. only downside was tryin to get
> java workin on some of the more obscure platforms(AIX 4.3, Solaris 2.5-2.6,
> Tru64). On debian and redhat it was a snap though. solaris 7 and 8 was
> pretty easy too.

That's the annoying program, it works, but I'd rather not have java and X
and all that jazz installed.
>
> I haven't tried the load estimator. my biggest APC unit was a 2200 with
> 2 rackmount battery packs, at about 60% load it gave me approx 2 and
> a half hours of runtime. Keep in mind that the rackmount battery packs
> count as 2 battery packs, so when configuring the UPS to make it aware
> of the battery packs double the amount if its a rackmount(4 batteries
> vs 2 in the floor models).

Yeah.  The battery back I have in the unit now counts as 5 batteries :)
4 batteries approximately the size of car batteries.

Mike