shutdown by regular user

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 07:54 -0400, william drescher wrote:
> We have the ups and apcupsd so that would work.  But the UPS also 
> powers the phone system and the intent of the user shutting down 
> the computer manually if someone is present (who has an IT room 
> key) is to extend the time the phone system works.

Just make sure that the phone system does not react to the UPS alert.
The server should still shut down, to protect the data stored on it if
the outage exceeds the standby time available. The server will start
automatically when the UPS gets mains power again.

Alternatively, if the phone system is configurable in how it reacts to
UPS alerts, tell it to shut down on low-battery (i.e., later), rather
than just shut down on loss of mains power i.e., immediately).

Regards, K.

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