Sigh. As is seemingly usual, on a clear night I lost power. DSL is apparently still up. My old APC Back UPS Pro 1100 is still running my two servers and firewall without incident after 20 minutes. My smaller UPS lost my desktop after less than ten minutes, though I had plenty of time to think up interesting commit messages for svn before my nightly source code commit.
It’s been nearly 25 minutes now. It’s getting hot. I wonder how much longer this might last. Surely won’t be as bad as in New York last montly, so I can’t complain. Much cooler in Florida at present, too.
I guess I’ll cruise around and see who still has power in the area.
While wandering around, a neighbor learns from a call that someone drove into a poll somewhere.
Around 1:10 power is restored. My large APC Back UPS Pro survived four nearly 60 minutes running a large six drive system with two older Socket 370 CPUs. More impressive, the unit is now four years old. As UPSes age their batteries tend to deteriorate.
Aug 5 00:11:00 nebula upsmon[1879]: UPS backupspro@localhost on battery Aug 5 00:35:15 nebula upsd[1876]: Client nutuser@192.168.0.5 logged out Aug 5 01:02:32 nebula upsmon[1879]: UPS backupspro@localhost battery is low Aug 5 01:02:32 nebula upsd[1876]: Client nutuser@127.0.0.1 set FSD on UPS [backupspro] Aug 5 01:02:39 nebula upsd[1876]: Host 192.168.0.1 disconnected (read failure) Aug 5 01:02:39 nebula upsmon[1879]: Executing automatic power-fail shutdown Aug 5 01:02:39 nebula upsmon[1879]: Auto logout and shutdown proceeding Aug 5 01:02:44 nebula upsd[1876]: Host 127.0.0.1 disconnected (read failure) Aug 5 01:02:55 nebula upsd[1876]: Signal 15: exiting
I am also pleased to see that the Nut UPS daemon shutdown all machines physically attached to the UPS. Only one system is attached to the UPS via a serial cable, but three systems are serviced by the UPS. Nut automatically initiates a shutdown when battery level hits critical and provides that information to slave Nut daemons on neighboring systems, which shutdown first.
I had been waiting to test that for three years…
