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

Al,

IMHO, 25 minutes on a 5 year old battery is pretty good performance!

A quick scan of the web will get you a pdf of the Powerware 9125 UPS. This
model UPS will alert you if the batteries fail a self test, and need
replacement.

The *CALC value of the QUPSDLYTIM system value is fixed at 200. This value
is used for systems that have an internal battery.

A UPS monitor program would have better handled this situation. The program
allows you to tailor your system's response to power events to match your
requirements.

To toot my own horn a bit, I sell a UPS Monitor program kit on my web site,
www.atticdesignlab.com . The user's guide is a free download, and explains a
bit about UPS program paramaters.

Regards,
Armand Borick
Attic Design Lab


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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.

-
Al Macintyre