Power down before outages

Name of Task: Power down before outages

People Involved: Craig Earley

Date Started: June 5, 2018 (or thereabouts)

Deadline:

Description:

After a hard crash in June 2018, we want to have a program that powers down our servers gracefully after we switch to battery power. The program APCUPSD should be helpful.

Status

APCUPSD is installed and works. It does not yet interface with our hardware.

We have useful SNMP codes as well, which can be helpful in getting information.

Some notes scraped from a Google Drive Doc:

• Decided we’ll use the current UPS info and adapt later if needed
• Send message to ask machines to initiate shutdown
• Apcupsd: need some more info to actually connect to the UPS, but the software runs on shinken

Helpful sources

• https://wiki.debian.org/apcupsd
• http://www.apcupsd.org/manual/manual.html

Date Last Updated:' August 1, 2018

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