APC SCSI-SATA II System maintenance, UPS Type Shutdown Battery Level, Shutdown Delay s, Status

Currently, the system only support and communicate with smart-UPS function of APC (American Power Conversion Corp.) UPS. Please check detail from http://www.apc.com/.

First, connect the system and APC UPS via RS-232 for communication. Then set up the shutdown values when the power is gone. UPS of other vendors can work fine, but they have no such function of communication.

UPS Type

Shutdown Battery Level

(%)

Shutdown

Delay (s)

Select UPS Type. Choose Smart-UPS for APC, None for other vendors or no UPS.

When below the setting level, the system will shutdown. Setting level to “0” will disable UPS function.

If power failure occurred, and the system can not return back to the setting value period, the system will shutdown. Setting delay to “0” will disable the function.

Shutdown

UPS

Select ON, when power is gone, UPS will shutdown by itself after the system shutdown successfully. After power comes back, UPS will start working and notify system to boot up. OFF will not.

Status

The status of UPS.

“Detecting…”

“Running”

“Unable to detect UPS” “Communication lost” “UPS reboot in progress” “UPS shutdown in progress”

“Batteries failed. Please change them NOW!”

Battery Level

(%)

Current percentage of battery level.

3.8 System maintenance

“Maintenance” function allows operation of the system functions including “Upgrade” to the latest firmware, “Info” to show the system version, “Reset to default” to reset all controller configuration values to origin settings, “Config

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