On Aug 12, 2010, at 2:49 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: >> Yes. The downside comes from when the BIOS is told to turn on the server at, >> say, 10pm and the power is still out... it starts the process and runs out >> of battery mid-way through the boot before it gets the chance to load the >> UPS controller. > > You may want to think about using two UPS units -- a large one for your > server, and a smaller one for your network stack. This way you can use UPS > monitoring software (like NUT or PowerChute) to have the server command its > UPS to switch off when it's fully shut down. Then when power comes back the > server UPS will switch back on and the server will boot back up, assuming > you've set the BIOS to boot up on power recovery. Some UPS units have the > ability to set a power recovery delay to ensure the battery has some charge > before the server starts up, too.
Great idea, I'll definitely keep that in mind. -- Ryan_______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
