shutdown by regular user

william drescher william at TechServSys.com
Sat Mar 28 10:56:49 UTC 2015


On 3/27/2015 8:27 AM, Karl Auer wrote:
> 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 phone system is stupid.  It just does its job when there is 
power.

> The server should still shut down, to protect the data stored on it if
> the outage exceeds the standby time available.

That is how it is set up.

bill






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