S8730s Avaya UPS and SNMP traps

[Avayell]

Do the S8730 with CM 5 and Avaya UPSs provide the ability via SNMP traps to bring the server down when the UPS is reaching exhaustion?

I have found some related documents but i cannot figure it out.

Thanks in advance

 

[Nick44]

I believe it is supposed to, but I have never managed to get it working either.

Speak softly and carry a big switch

 

[Avayell]

Anyone else who has done this?

 

[billybobdan]

When I investigated this a couple of years ago, Avaya advised that the feature was disabled on the 8700 server. Weather it has been re-enable is anybodies guess.

Reasoning was that there was several remotes sites that went into power shutdown which then required a site visit to power the servers back on.. I believe the scenario was :

Power failed
UPS ran system okay
Ups notified S8700 to shutdown
S8700 commenced shutdown
Power was restored before UPS expired
Servers still shutdown regardless.
= bad situation

 

[Gielo]

I have used this option in CM1.3 to do a soft shutdown on the CM server, initiated by a Mains fail to the UPS. I experienced several failures where the UPS would shut the CM side down as a result of a minor power glitch leading to a lot of frustration.

As from CM2 onwards the Linux kernel was hardened by using a ext3 file system I think. Then this shutdown method was not used anymore.