System Shutdown Test

At this point, we recommend that you do a simulated power down of your system. If you are adventuresome or have been through this before, skip to the next section in this manual and do the real power fail shutdown. If you continue with the simulated power down and if all goes well, apcupsd will go through all the motions without actually shutting down the system. Continue using the safe apccontrol that you installed. Edit the conﬁguration ﬁle apcupsd and change the value of TIMEOUT from 0 to something like

30.Doing so will cause apcupsd to attempt to shutdown the system 30 seconds after it detects a power failure. Once this change has been made, you must stop and restart apcupsd for the new conﬁguration value to take eﬀect.

Once again, pull the power plug, and if all goes as expected, apcupsd should attempt to shutdown the system about 30 seconds after it detects the power failure. All the messages should be displayed by wall or by the tail -f command. The precise message is determined by what is printed in /etc/apcupsd/apccontrol for the doshutdown event. Though it varies from system to system, it will generally be something like:

Beginning Shutdown Sequence

When apcupsd this message prints, reconnect the power. apcupsd should detect that the power has been restored and attempt to cancel the shutdown.

IMPORTANT after this test, please replace the changed apccontrol and apcupsd.conf with the original ﬁles.

This is an intermediate test that you can do, for all UPS models before doing the Full Power Down Test. First modify the /etc/apcupsd/apccontrol ﬁle so that in the killpower) case, the line that re-executes apcupsd with the --killpower option is commented out. The original line probably looks something like:

${APCUPSD} --killpower

when it is commented out, it looks like:

#${APCUPSD}--killpower

UPS control system specifications

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APC UPS control system manual System Shutdown Test, When it is commented out, it looks like

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