so I have a bunch of servers at work that are on DUAL UPS's (1 per each of 2 power supplies). Its mostly HP gear, but also some Sun and IBM. Ideally I'd like the system to not go into shutdown unless BOTH UPS's that a particular box is plugged into (there's actually 4 UPS, 2 per each of 2 racks). Has anyone ever configured anything like that with NUT or whatever? Right now, I'm running without any UPS monitoring software, as the whole building is on a generator that comes on 60 seconds after a power failure, so my 7kVA(!) UPS's don't see much use, and also I just installled these new racks and UPS's and haven't really had the time to sit down and figure it all out. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast
John R Pierce wrote:> so I have a bunch of servers at work that are on DUAL UPS's (1 per each > of 2 power supplies). Its mostly HP gear, but also some Sun and IBM. > Ideally I'd like the system to not go into shutdown unless BOTH UPS's > that a particular box is plugged into (there's actually 4 UPS, 2 per > each of 2 racks). Has anyone ever configured anything like that with > NUT or whatever? > > Right now, I'm running without any UPS monitoring software, as the whole > building is on a generator that comes on 60 seconds after a power > failure, so my 7kVA(!) UPS's don't see much use, and also I just > installled these new racks and UPS's and haven't really had the time to > sit down and figure it all out. >Nope. I'd think to have something that checked both UPSes, and if both of them were showing no line power for over x sec (60? 70?), start a shutdown. Here, as I just mentioned, it's only a second or two, so I have to edit /etc/apcupsd/apccontrol to change SHUTDOWN to SHUTDOWN=/dev/null mark
On 30/09/14 02:33 PM, John R Pierce wrote:> so I have a bunch of servers at work that are on DUAL UPS's (1 per each > of 2 power supplies). Its mostly HP gear, but also some Sun and IBM. > Ideally I'd like the system to not go into shutdown unless BOTH UPS's > that a particular box is plugged into (there's actually 4 UPS, 2 per > each of 2 racks). Has anyone ever configured anything like that with > NUT or whatever? > > Right now, I'm running without any UPS monitoring software, as the whole > building is on a generator that comes on 60 seconds after a power > failure, so my 7kVA(!) UPS's don't see much use, and also I just > installled these new racks and UPS's and haven't really had the time to > sit down and figure it all out.I do this with APC UPSes and apcupsd. I find it well worth the effort as I have a (separate) program that checks the UPS state every 30 seconds and emails me if there is a notable state change. This has caught multiple power issues coming from the mains. I show how I do this as a sub-section in a larger tutorial, if you are curious; https://alteeve.ca/w/AN!Cluster_Tutorial_2#Setting_Up_UPS_Monitoring I had to make some changes to the apcupsd init.d script to read/use multiple UPS config files. I also disabled the automatic power off features as, by default, it would have triggered a shutdown as soon as one UPS dropped. This is useless if the other UPS is fine, of course. That separate scanner program handles the smarts for deciding when to shut down based on the strongest of the available UPSes... but that's not really covered here. hth -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education?
John R Pierce wrote: <snip>> failure, so my 7kVA(!) UPS's don't see much use, and also I just > installled these new racks and UPS's and haven't really had the time toDamn, hit <send>, and forgot to ask: feel free to answer offlist, but what make and model are the 7KVAs, and what ballpark price were they? We need two of something like that (at least 6KVA) for the SGI supercomputer.... mark