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…well, he saved the early morning, at least!

This morning, there was apparently a complete power failure up at my Dad’s place where my server is located. This is different from the usual brownouts that occur throughout the week… small 2-3 second blips that would be enough to trip out the server. They were getting mighty annoying, and so my Dad and I bought a UPS which I have since named Thor.

Anyway, checking my email this morning, I had two alerts sent via the UPS monitoring app I have running. I’ve stripped most of the data to the most important info:

• callisto Power Failure !!!
  DATE     : Fri Aug 01 02:41:46 EDT 2008
  HOSTNAME : callisto
  UPSNAME  : Thor
  MODEL    : Back-UPS RS 900
  UPSMODE  : Stand Alone
  STATUS   : ONBATT
  LOADPCT  :   9.0 Percent Load Capacity
  BCHARGE  : 100.0 Percent
  TIMELEFT :  71.4 Minutes
• callisto Power has returned
  DATE     : Fri Aug 01 03:44:55 EDT 2008
  HOSTNAME : callisto
  UPSNAME  : Thor
  MODEL    : Back-UPS RS 900
  UPSMODE  : Stand Alone
  STATUS   : ONLINE
  LOADPCT  :   9.0 Percent Load Capacity
  BCHARGE  : 024.0 Percent
  TIMELEFT :  19.9 Minutes
  XONBATT  : Fri Aug 01 02:41:44 EDT 2008
  XOFFBATT : Fri Aug 01 03:44:54 EDT 2008

That’s SO cool!! This is the first time that we’ve had a power failure since we bought and installed Thor, so it was great to see that everything worked as expected. I still have yet to test a complete train of Thor’s battery, which should result in the UPS monitoring app initiating a shutdown, but I’ll do that when I have the time and under controlled circumstances.

Thanks to Sparky for helping me with my initial configuration, and thanks to Thor for kicking ass!!!

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