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*CALC doesn't have a lot of value, but is based on what is going on inside your system and how long it thinks it will take to shut down, not how big your UPS is. I believe it was really designed for the smaller AS/400's that have IBM recommended UPS's and it assumes a fully charged one of those. "Bale, Dan" <D.Bale@handleman.c To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com> om> cc: Sent by: Subject: UPS & AS/400 talking to each other midrange-l-admin@MI DRANGE.COM 09/21/01 12:57 PM Please respond to midrange-l Somewhat related to my last post on SPCN... I noticed that my QUPSDLYTIM system value is set to *CALC. How does the AS/400 know how much juice is left to be able to determine whether it needs to start shutting down? Is there another cable that allows the UPS and AS/400 to communicate this information? I don't think our UPS's have that, or if they do, they were never set up to do this. If a comm cable is required, then what is the effect of the *CALC setting? Background for all this: Last night, one of our branches cut power to the building to install a new A/C unit (unbeknownst to us), relying on the UPS to keep all of the computer equipment up for the "short" time that the electricity was going to kept off. I was told by the branch manager that the AS/400 lost power immediately after the building power was turned off. While the building power was off, we powered the AS/400 back up, so this is how I know that the AS/400 was attached to the UPS. The IPL was proceeding when the UPS got completely drained 15 minutes later and then all equipment on the UPS went down. Main power was restored shortly thereafter, the AS/400 IPL'd normally (!), got a signon screen within 20 minutes (a normal IPL for this box), nothing "damaged" as far as I could tell. Lessons learned: Don't power the AS/400 back up until after main power was restored. WHAT THE @#%* WAS I THINKING? Dan Bale IT - AS/400 Handleman Company 248-362-4400 Ext. 4952 D.Bale@Handleman.com _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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