Re: Was System Abend Due to the UPS, or the Sense Cable or the iSeries?

This last weekend was both EOM (End of Fiscal Month, where I get to do 99% of the accounting stuff) and a surprise extended power outage where the AS/400 went down hard. I am still busy with some after-EOM reports & I could use guidance / suggestions on what else I should do about the UPS battery, which I suspect may need some attention.

Normally we have power outage flickers of 1-2 seconds, most of which "coincidentally" occur right around shift change at the factory.

A power line came down, so we lost power for a couple hours.
I am extremely grateful the power got repaired as fast as it did, on EOM weekend.

We have phone lines still not fixed since the flooding of last June July.

Turns out our QUPSDLYTIM (UPS delay time) was set for 1500 seconds (30 min) & the battery ran out after 25 minutes. I changed QUPSDLYTIM to *CALC & it gets 200 seconds (3 min), which seems ominous to me.

QUPSMSGQ (UPS message queue) goes to QSYSMSG which got erased by the re-IPL, or earlier, so it does not seem logical to have messages about a power outage in a queue which won't have useful info there after power returns.

However, when we had our hard disk crash a month ago, QSYSMSG still had all the history about the hard disk problems from before the power taken down to replace that drive.

DSPLOG had some ominous messages, such as damaged objects.

My priority was to get EOM completed over the weekend, after which I ran 100% SAVE-21, with no problems.

The last time we had damaged objects, the backup would not do them, so I am hoping this means we are now Ok.

We verified UPS is attached only to our AS/400 (V5R1) model 170, and the power to the UPS is from the wall supply, without anything else sharing the load.

It is a POWERWARE 9125 whose manual I cannot find.
I want to know if we have a battery on its last legs.
Asking around, it sounds like we may have had this in excess of five years. These batteries cannot last indefinitely.

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Al Macintyre