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Automatic Oracle Shutdown when UPS dies

 
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Chris Cruz_1
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Automatic Oracle Shutdown when UPS dies

Is there an HP h/w or s/w product that will allow actions to be performed if a UPS is about to die? Actions such as shutdown Oracle and/or a Unix server.

Any information/documentation that can be shared related to this would be very much appreciated.
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Wodisch
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Re: Automatic Oracle Shutdown when UPS dies

Hi,

usually an UPS does have at least a serial cable top connect to the UN*X box. That cable will drop signal "DTR" upon loss of power, so all you need is a line in your "/etc/inittab" to wait for that to happen. As dropping "DTR" creates the signal "HUP" on all processes connected to that line, a shell-script using
trap "/sbin/init.d/oracle stop" 1
and then sleeping/waiting forever should work fine...

FWIW,
Wodisch
Pete Randall
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Re: Automatic Oracle Shutdown when UPS dies

Assuming you can receive signal from the UPS as Wodisch noted, just configure the ups_mond (via /etc/ups_conf) to start a normal shutdown before the battery runs out.

Pete

Pete
Lars-Olof Fermvall
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Re: Automatic Oracle Shutdown when UPS dies

Hi!

Unless you specifically want a HP solution, many UPS manufacturers supply supervision and shutdown programs with their products for many platforms (including). If you are using HP hardware, disregard this suggestion, since the previous answers would be more relevant.

Lars-Olof
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Indira Aramandla
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Re: Automatic Oracle Shutdown when UPS dies

If you have POWERSAFE 5 CONFIGURATION PROGRAM R5.3.1
you can configure the "psafe" parmeters. The install program will ask to configure battery reserve time, battery recharge time in hours, and the users to receive mail from psafe and the shutdown script to execute.

And then to automatically start up Powersafe 5 software when your computer system is up, you need to edit a system file which is executed at startup.

We had expererienced this problem where the air-conditioning had a problem and the UPS daemon died and this shutdown the UNIX servers and the oracle databases 10 minutes before after the initial warning message. And the when the UPS was started the systems were automatically started up by the startup scripts configures in powersafe configuration.

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KVS Raju
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Re: Automatic Oracle Shutdown when UPS dies

Hi,

For HP systems "HP PowerTrust" software is available to handle this type of scenarios. For more details you can contact HP.

Regards
Kvs Raju
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Rory R Hammond
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Re: Automatic Oracle Shutdown when UPS dies

We have used HP powertrust software and it works. We have also used APC's powerchute software and it also works.
Both are started with /etc/inittab entries.


Man pages to look at:
man inittab
man ups_mond
man ups_conf




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