Lenovo Ideacentre - how to start on power application?

[David Fletcher]

On Wed, 2024-10-16 at 19:01 +0200, Bo Berglund wrote:
> 
> QUESTION
> --------
> Is there some setting that can be made on this machine that tells it
> to start if
> power has been cycled?

My home server runs on a very low power industrial Mini ITX board by
Jetway. It also has power protection from an APC UPS with USB
communication. There is a BIOS setting in these boards to automatically
boot when power is applied. I assume that when the UPS battery is
discharged to the preset threshold due to utility power failure,
apcupsd instructs the UPS via the USB cable to power down after a time
delay that permits the server to shut down properly. Then when utility
power returns, the UPS starts up and applies power to the server which
then reboots even if I am 1000 miles away on holiday.

Fortunately this is a very rare occurrence in SW England but it has
happened and everything shut down and rebooted as expected.

Dave