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Power outage - RN528X does not auto-power on, causing UPS Slave errors
Early southern California winter storm, lost power for a few hours. Have the following setup: Cyberpower CP1500PFCLCDA 1500VA UPS RN528X is USB-connected to UPS and configured in RN OS 6.10.9 "...
However, after power was restored, RN528X did not power back on. It remained powered down.
That is normal (assuming the UPS battery drained).
That is also normal behavior with your RN424, RN314, and RN212. After they properly shut down, you need to manually power them up again.
and all with WoL enabled.
Can you explain what WoL has to do with this?
WoL allows you to power up the NAS over the network by sending a "magic" packet to the NAS. Is something on your network doing this? Note it doesn't mean that the NAS will power up when it detects ethernet.
Am I doing something wrong by using one NAS as the "Host" for UPS and the others as "Slaves"?
No, but it is rather odd that the RN528 powered down, but the other NAS did not. Are all the NAS (and the network equipment between them) all powered by this UPS?
Thanks StephenB :
Not sure why you say that it's normal for a NAS to remain powered off when power is restored. I quoted Netgear's website directly, repeating it here:
"When wake-on-LAN is enabled, if the unit is disconnected from AC power it will power on when AC power is reconnected."
This is why I mentioned WoL. The sentence reads "Enable WoL, your unit will auto-power on after a power outage", doesn't it? I understand the main use for WoL using magic packets - this sentence indicates that WoL has a dual-purpose. Either that, or Netgear's website is incorrect or misleading.
Also, to be clear (which I wasn't), although the RN528X did not power on after power was restored, the RN314 and RN424 did. The RN212 did not power back on. So the result was inconsistent, I guess you could say. I wanted to be clear that WoL was enabled on all of them.
Re: "odd that the RN528 powered down, but the other NAS's did not" - I didn't provide enough info. They all powered down, which they had to because the UPS was completely exhausted after less than 20 minutes. The outage was several hours long. What I was trying to say was, I was half way across the country when this happened. When power was restored and two of the NAS's came back on, they began frequent barking about no connection to the RN528 UPS master. Generated a lot of annoying notifications that wouldn't have happened if the RN528 powered back on as it should have (well, at least if I'm reading the Netgear sentence correctly).
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