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Turned off after power return
I would like to recall the thread: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS-in-Business/Auto-Power-On-after-Power-Loss/m-p/896012/highlight/true#M49771 and ask about the possibility to ...
On the mainboard there are some jumpers. Maybe is there any way to change the auto power on/off option changing any jumper?
ReadyAS wrote:
Maybe is there any way to change the auto power on/off option changing any jumper?
I don't know what the jumpers do, but there is no known way to change the auto power on/off in the bios.
There is a workaround - get a UPS that supports USB monitoring and connect that to the NAS. The NAS will shut down gracefully when the UPS battery runs down, and won't start up again until you press the power button (assuming you don't have a power on schedule set).
Thank you for your fast answer StephenB.
"there is no known way to change the auto power on/off in the bios." - I think it is the way, but of course there is a need to modify the BIOS.
I have one UPS, but connected to four NAS'es. There is no way to properly manage this.
Always when I plug in the power cord / give voltage, the NAS starts, so even when I power on the voltage in my home and next on my UPS, all four NAS'es start at the same time completely unnecessarily.
I'm looking for the solution, so I have opened the housing and see that on the mainboard there are some jumpers - meybe there is any way?
All the ReadyNAS are designed for 24*7 operations - so they have to power-up and boot if power is applied, e.g. following a power failure 8-)
I guess they removed the BIOS menu from these legacy unit, so the config (which does exist on industry standard systems) cant' be changed easily. Time for patching the defaults in the image?
If you are interested: The competitors are not sleeping - they have controls in the Web UI for BIOS- (top) and custom power controller equipped ARM systems (below) for a loooong time:The processor for Pro4 (RNDP4000) and Ultra4(RNDP4000) has x86 (not ARM) architecture, but maybe is there Web UI for BIOS for that NAS'es?
Could you give me any tip how to find it, please?
ReadyAS wrote:
I have one UPS, but connected to four NAS'es. There is no way to properly manage this.
Always when I plug in the power cord / give voltage, the NAS starts, so even when I power on the voltage in my home and next on my UPS, all four NAS'es start at the same time completely unnecessarily.
Are the ReadyNAS monitoring the UPS? (one can monitor it over USB, the remaining three can monitor it over the network from the hosting ReadyNAS)?
With my own systems, the ReadyNAS shut themselves down when the UPS battery gets low. The voltage never disappears, because the UPS doesn't completely drain. When power is restored to the UPS, it's battery will charge but the ReadyNAS won't restart.
Though for me the power loss is fairly short (hours at most). Since the ReadyNAS do draw a small amount of power even when shut down, the UPS battery would drain completely if the power failure was very long. In that case, my ReadyNAS would turn back on when power was restored.
ReadyAS wrote:
The processor for Pro4 (RNDP4000) and Ultra4(RNDP4000) has x86 (not ARM) architecture, but maybe is there Web UI for BIOS for that NAS'es?
Could you give me any tip how to find it, please?
As schumaku says, there is none. You aren't the first to ask about this, and no one has posted a solution over the years. The UPS workaround I posted above does work.
Many surge protectors also will shut themselves down when power is lost (and won't deliver power until reset). You could also put that between between the UPS and the ReadyNAS. Though I still recommend monitoring the UPS from the NAS, since you do want them to shut down cleanly. And of course test that the surge protector doesn't trigger when power is removed from the UPS.
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