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rnas_newbie
Mar 09, 2010Aspirant
APC Back-UPS RS 550GI
Reporting back the results of the following model : APC Back-UPS RS 550GI (region = UK) Originally the setting within Frontview was set to "Auto" - Had to fix the percentage to get it to shutdown pro...
rnas_newbie
Mar 10, 2010Aspirant
I tried this again, taking the sensible approach this time & attached the NVX to the mains & kept a non critical load on the UPS & let the NVX monitor the UPS.
Select shutdown on battery low threshold : "Auto"
Successfully shutdown when it got to 9%,
So I reckon this answers my query when alerts will come, it was waiting the "critical alert" signal from the UPS, but It get's pretty close to depletion for my liking, so I'll stick with manually setting the percentage as it's not critical if the NVX goes off-line early.
Final set of notifications from the Frontview log.
Wed Mar 10 08:50:48 WET 2010 System is up.
Wed Mar 10 08:48:50 WET 2010 UPS is shutting down system.
Wed Mar 10 08:48:48 WET 2010 UPS battery is low; system will shutdown soon
Select shutdown on battery low threshold : "Auto"
Successfully shutdown when it got to 9%,
So I reckon this answers my query when alerts will come, it was waiting the "critical alert" signal from the UPS, but It get's pretty close to depletion for my liking, so I'll stick with manually setting the percentage as it's not critical if the NVX goes off-line early.
Final set of notifications from the Frontview log.
Wed Mar 10 08:50:48 WET 2010 System is up.
Wed Mar 10 08:48:50 WET 2010 UPS is shutting down system.
Wed Mar 10 08:48:48 WET 2010 UPS battery is low; system will shutdown soon
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