Powerware/Eaton Industrial UPS Relay Card (INDGW-X2)

Hello... we have recently made a decision (long story, many factors) to
pivot from our 'UPS Notification' being based on the serial cable/USB cable
attached to our IBM i servers...



We never wanted the system to actually initiate a shutdown based on this,
and had the interrelated setup of system values, message queues, power
handling program, etc. fine tuned to watch for a certain subset of CPF/CPI
messages that corresponded to the events we were truly interested in
responding to manually... (utiility power not present/restored, UPS on
bypass/not on bypass, etc.). The UPS really normally just covers a very
short gap of time until our solution fails over to a natural gas line fed
generator (and back as utility power fails/restores/etc.).

We have had trouble over the years where the long physical cable between
the Powerware/Eaton 9155 and the IBM USB 'pigtail' degenerates and we begin
to have the solution sense 'ghost events' that are somehow picked up by the
cable but were never actually sent by the source UPS (9155). We have
replaced the 75ft cable a few times over the past 6 years due to this (and
that cable is no longer even a stock purchase item and needs to be custom
built). We no longer want to rely on this cabled solution that
periodically degenerates for some unknown reason... we would prefer to cut
out the middleman and be notified directly by a card within the actual
Eaton/Powerware 9155...



With all that said, we are now starting to test with the Powerware/Eaton
Industrial UPS Relay Card (INDGW-X2) that has been recently installed in
our 9155 UPS. The solution looks promising and will give a a ton of
usefull visability into the 9155 that we've never had, but the wide range
of potential alarm codes has us trying to figure out what small subset of
alarm codes we actually want to go out to our on call technician via SMTP
out to a prioritized web SMTP gateway for notification (we use Red Oxygen
for this).

There are pages and pages of potential nitty gritty alarm codes - we will
have ALL of these go to mailboxes of the needed staff, but we really only
want the following events to go out to the SMTP box that will forward them
out to the on call alarm setup:

Equivalent Message ID Event Type
CPF1816 Utility power failed
CPF1817 Utility power restored
CPI0964 Weak Battery condition exists
CPI0973 Weak Battery condition no longer exists
CPI0974 UPS has been bypassed
CPI0975 UPS no longer bypassed


In short terms (after typing all that), i'm wondering if anyone else is
using the card based Powerware/Eaton solution specified above and has any
ideas which actual event codes correspond to what we've always monitored
for on the IBM i...