8 system maintenance – APC RAID Subsystem SCSI-SATA II User Manual

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Currently, the system only support and communicate with smart-UPS function of
APC (American Power Conversion Corp.) UPS. Please check detail from

http://www.apc.com/

.


First, connect the system and APC UPS via RS-232 for communication. Then set
up the shutdown values when the power is gone. UPS of other vendors can work
fine, but they have no such function of communication.

UPS Type

Select UPS Type. Choose Smart-UPS for APC, None
for other vendors or no UPS.

Shutdown
Battery Level
(%)

When below the setting level, the system will
shutdown. Setting level to “0” will disable UPS
function.

Shutdown
Delay (s)

If power failure occurred, and the system can not
return back to the setting value period, the system will
shutdown. Setting delay to “0” will disable the
function.

Shutdown
UPS

Select ON, when power is gone, UPS will shutdown by
itself after the system shutdown successfully. After
power comes back, UPS will start working and notify
system to boot up. OFF will not.

Status

The status of UPS.
“Detecting…”

“Running”
“Unable to detect UPS”
“Communication lost”
“UPS reboot in progress”
“UPS shutdown in progress”
“Batteries failed. Please change them NOW!”

Battery Level
(%)

Current percentage of battery level.


3.8 System maintenance


“Maintenance” function allows operation of the system functions including
Upgrade” to the latest firmware, “Info” to show the system version, “Reset to
default
” to reset all controller configuration values to origin settings, “Config

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