UPS Utility Manual

The following values are possible:
o
Power is normal
- As of the most recent observation, incoming AC power was detected as "normal" at every UPS device
being monitored. Overall, the system is in a "normal power" state.
o
Power has failed
- As of the most recent observation, incoming AC power was detected as "absent" or "out of
tolerance" at one or more of the UPS devices being monitored. Hence, one or more of the UPS devices is/are providing
"battery backup power" to the system (unless power has been absent for so long that the UPS battery has been drained
completely).
3.5.2.4 Powerfail Recovery Messages
This field shows the current setting of the UPS Monitor's configuration option for handling ** RECOVERY FROM
POWERFAIL ** messages. This setting is established
when the UPS Monitor processes its configuration file, either during
system startup (using UPSCNFIG.PUB.SYS) or, when the system is up, via the NEWCONFIG command of the UPSUTIL
program.
Possible values of this field are:
o
All terminals
- ** RECOVERY FROM POWERFAIL ** messages will be sent to the system console and to all logged-
on user terminals. (This is the traditional behavior for HP3000 systems.)
o
Console only
- Recovery messages will be sent ONLY to the system console; no powerfail messages will be sent to user
terminals.
3.5.2.5 Configuration File Name
This field shows the file name of the currently active UPS Monitor configuration file, and is followed
by a status
indication field that reads either (Config File Ok) or (** Config File Has Error **).
Note that this field always shows the file name of the most recent UPS Monitor configuration file to
have been processed
by
the UPS Monitor, regardless of whether that processing was successful (no errors in configuration file) or not
(configuration file has some error(s)).
If a configuration file does contain some error(s), then the UPS Monitor reports the error to the system console,
then
ignores the configuration file record containing the error.
This means that whatever configuration attribute ( e.g.
powerfail_message_routing) was supposedly being set in that configuration file record will not be set to a new value.
Instead, UPS Monitor will simply retain the original value of the configuration attribute. Therefore, if the status
display
shows (** Config File Has Error **), then the actual values of configuration attributes that are shown in
the status display
do not "belong" to that configuration file. Instead, they are the prior values, being retained by UPS Monitor.
3.5.2.6 Powerfail Command File Name
This field shows the file name of the currently active UPS Monitor powerfail command file, if any, and is followed
by a
status indication field that reads either ( Pfail Cmd File Ok ) or (** Command File Has Error **).
Note that this field always shows the file name of the most recent UPS Monitor powerfail command
file to have been set
up by the UPS Monitor, regardless of whether that command file was set up correctly or not.
The UPS Monitor attempts to "set up" (or establish) a powerfail command file when
it encounters a
"powerfail_command_file
= <filename>" configuration command
while processing a UPS Monitor configuration
file.
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