Read Before Installing MPE/iX PowerPatch 1 Based on Release 6.5 (30216-90319)

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Information You Need Before Installing MPE/iX 6.5 PowerPatch 1
Patch MPELX33C
UPS MONITOR CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
Here are the available configuration options (configuration "commands") for UPS Monitor
configuration files. At present, there is only one configuration command defined. More
may be added in the future if/as needed.
POWERFAIL MESSAGE ROUTING
The powerfail message routing configuration option allows you to choose how the UPS
Monitor will handle its issuance of the HP3000 system's ** RECOVERY FROM
POWERFAIL ** message, which is issued at the end of every power failure event -- when
AC power has returned to all UPSs -- to notify the system operator and (optionally) system
users of the completion of a power failure cycle.
parameter name: powerfail_message_routing
parameter values:
1. all_terminals
To send the notification message to the system console and to all user terminals.
2. console_only
To send the notification message only to the system console. No notification messages
are sent to any user terminals.
UPSCNFIG.PUB.SYS : THE DEFAULT UPS MONITOR CONFIGURATION FILE
You can still control the UPS Monitor with a configuration file even if you never use
UPSUTIL's newconfig command. This is because the latest version of the UPS Monitor
(Version 8 of March 2000), which is the first to implement UPS Monitor configuration files,
automatically attempts to open and read a default UPS Monitor configuration file, named
UPSCNFIG.PUB.SYS, at each system startup (each system boot).
Therefore, before or after installing Version 8 (or later) of the UPS Monitor software on
your system, you need only use your favorite editor to create a UPSCNFIG.PUB.SYS text
file, following one of the examples shown below, and then re-boot the system. From this
point on, the file UPSCNFIG.PUB.SYS will govern your system's UPS Monitor's
configurable behavior. The file UPSCNFIG.PUB.SYS will be read by and acted upon by
the UPS Monitor during every system startup, and also (should you choose to use this
facility) every time the UPS Monitor is started or re-started by using the UPSUTIL "start"
command.
The UPSUTIL "start" command causes a fresh-from-scratch startup of the UPS Monitor
(when it is not already running). Hence, a start will cause UPS Monitor to read the default
configuration file UPSCNFIG.PUB.SYS.
The UPSUTIL "restart" command causes a re-initializing restart of the UPS Monitor,
when it is already running. In this case, UPS Monitor will remember the file name of the
most recently active configuration file, and will re-process that same file during the
restart.
Use either one of the following two examples to create yourUPSCNFIG.PUB.SYS file:
• to send ** RECOVERY FROM POWERFAIL ** messages to the system console and to
all logged-on user terminals, which is the traditional method: