Chap5. Control Your PowerAssistant For Linux

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5.1 Shutdown Your Computers Gracefully

5.1.1 PowerAssistant for Linux's Shutdown Procedure

In order to let your computers be shut down gracefully, you should pay attention to the shutdown procedure executed by PowerAssistant for Linux. Figure 5.1 shows the flow chart of the procedure.

Before the shutdown procedure be proceeded, PowerAssistant will issue warning messages to related users notifying them the impending shutdown action.

If user schedules actions such as turn off UPS weekly/monthly or turn off UPS on a special day, within the pre-defined time (specified by the "Warning Before Sche. Shutdown") before the specified time, the Agent will trigger the "Begin Specially Turn off UPS Warning" or "Begin Weekly Turn off UPS Warning" or "Begin Monthly Turn off UPS Warning" event and act according to the Smart Events' settings. If the "Notify" option is selected, the Agent will issue warning messages at an interval of 5 minutes (during the last 10 minutes, the warning interval will be changed to 1 minute).

5.1.2 Shutdown Parameters

You should pay more attention to the shutdown parameters since it has close relationship to the shutdown procedures PowerAssistant executes and is very important to your operating systems and computer devices. For detail information about how to set the shutdown parameters correctly, please refer to 4.3.

5.1.3 Schedule Shutdown

User can arrange the weekly schedule or monthly schedule, or specify a special day to shut down their computer systems and turn off their UPS automatically. Enter the "Schedule Options" window to arrange the schedules.

5.1.4 Smart-Event Shutdown

Severe power events will also cause PowerAssistant to execute the shutdown procedure. Since the basic purpose of this software is to keep user's operating systems and computer devices away from the crisis caused by power failure, you need not to worry about the power crisis. PowerAssistant has already arranged for this.

Considering that not all the users' situations are the same, PowerAssistant for Linux provides Smart-Event to provide users the flexibility to tailor PowerAssistant's power events to meet their special reqirements. This means that in addition to those sever events that PowerAssistant will always execute the shutdown action, some other events can also be defined to cause PowerAssistant to execute the shutdown actions.

5.1.5 Shutdown Immediately

You can select to let PowerAssistant for Linux execute the shutdown action immediately or after a specified time. Select the "Shutdown Server..." from the "Control" menu in the monitor window's menu bar and key in the the shutdown delay time(in seconds) in the displayed dialog box named "Shutdown Server". After the "OK" button is pressed, your server and UPS will be shutdown after the specified shutdown delay time reaches. The default shutdown delay time is 0 second, this means that your server will be shut down immediately when the "OK" button is pressed.

5.2 Execute UPS Self-test

You can arrange the weekly/monthly schedule or a special day schedule for you UPS in PowerAssistant for Linux to run the self-test action. The self-test action also can be proceeded immediately and last a specified time.

5.3 Battery Maintenance

This menu item will pop up the dialog box to let the user enter the battery changed date. The BU707 and BU100 UPS do not support this function at present.

5.4 About The UPS's Buzzer

In PowerAssistant for Linux, user can test the UPS's buzzer through software. Select "Buzzer Test" from the "Control" menu will cause the software to run buzzer test immediately if user first enabled the Buzzer in the "Control" menu. User also can select the "Autotest" item from the "Control" menu to let PowerAssistant to run buzzer test automatically as predefined.

The BU707 and BU100 UPS do not support this function at present.

5.5 Input Voltage Detection Level

This is the entrance for the user to adjust his UPS's sensitivity and voltage mode.his function is supported only by the BX series UPS currently.


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