We had a F720 in a site that had regular power problems. At times every weekend the power would be down for more than an hour which would drain the UPS and the filer would fall flat on it's face. As far as the filer was concerned, there were no problems. On occasion the virus scanner servers would not reconnect on their own though.

-Josh

-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Siegel [mailto:abs@blueskystudios.com] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 11:03 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: APC UPS Monitoring

As far as I know, NetApps can survive a power cut without a problem. I heard that back in the old days, Tom Mendoza used to demonstrate the robustness of the filer by yanking the power during customer presentations.

On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 09:39 AM, devnull@adc.idt.com wrote:

Dear Toasters,

Can anyone please give me some tips on APC-UPS monitoring.

I have many APC Smart UPS'es and i use them to protect my File Servers. In the past when we used Sun hardware, we used to use the "Powerchute" software from APC. Now APC needs you to run some sort of Windows-box to be able to monitor all your machines.

I heard about apcupsd on another list and gave that a shot and it seems to do a pretty decent job when it comes to linux.

To protect my NetApp's, i am planning to use apcupsd on a linux machine and then try and somehow "correctly" use it to shutdown the netapp. I need to be careful about shutting down the netapp ONLY when the power is down and not every time the linux machine needs to be brought down.(so maybe an rc script WONT work)