Re: UPS issues

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

James,

 Clearly if the UPS is asserting the 'weak battery' and 'on battery' 
signals the only thing OS/400 CAN do is shut down, how could it know to 
do anything else? This means you need to work with the APC folks to find 
out why the 'on battery' signal was asserted.  IMHO the UPS was lying to 
OS/400 and there's just not much you can do from the OS/400 side.

 We have installed and utilizedl a lot of APC UPSs over the years and 
I've not seen this behaviour from them before. I would check with APC 
support.

  - Larry

James H H Lampert wrote:

> We just had to restart our main production AS/400, because the UPS
> self-test apparently detected a weak battery and raised the "weak batery"
> and "running on battery power" signals at the UPS monitoring socket on the
> back of the machine.
>
> Does anybody have any experience keeping a failed self-test from shutting
> down the system, while still allowing monitoring? The UPS is an APC
> Smart-UPS 2200, and the monitoring cable is the one APC supplies for
> AS/400s with 9-pin monitoring sockets.
>
> --
> JHHL
>  

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