Unix Tip: Power outage 2007
By Sandra Henry Stocker, ITworld.com
The power was gone and the UPS was keeping the systems up, but without air conditioning, the computer room was already heating up. "What", I asked myself as I surveyed the computer room that morning, "are my priorities?". I could wait for the auto-shutdown script, set to be triggered by a low-battery event issued by the UPS, to kick in and begin the graceful shutdown of servers. "But how hot", I wondered, "will the room be by then?" Better to run the script manually and the sooner the better.
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The power was gone and the UPS was keeping the systems up, but without air conditioning, the computer room was already heating up. "What", I asked myself as I surveyed the computer room that morning, "are my priorities?". I could wait for the auto-shutdown script, set to be triggered by a low-battery event issued by the UPS, to kick in and begin the graceful shutdown of servers. "But how hot", I wondered, "will the room be by then?" Better to run the script manually and the sooner the better.
Read the full article here.
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