23 May
2003
23 May
'03
10 p.m.
BTW, null, we use a (home-grown) monitoring script, which I wrote, to poll the SNMP/Web interface of the UPS for battery status. When the "battery remaining" gets below a certain time value, the systems page the sysadmins, and shut themselves down in anticipation of total power loss. Then of course, somebody has to physically be in the room to restart all the systems when the UPS comes back online... This handles the situation where simply going to battery on UPS doesn't cause the systems to go offline -- they actually USE the UPS's battery.
I use the Smart UPS'es and so dont have a network connection. Cant use the NetApp functionality anyways, i was wondering if anyone actually had a solution to work around this problem...