Todays goals: pull both the ups and the external battery unit (EBU). While there, swap them so the UPS is on top. Take photos of the wiring. Disconnect each battery. Measure it. Replace anything not like the others. Expecting 13V or so on most. One should read way less. Maybe. But the UPS is now charged to 100% All cells in the UPS measure about 13.4V. Next, the EBU. All aboutt 13.4 or […]
Let’s find the dead cell in my Eaton 5PX Read More »
This afternoon, I was running an Ansible script to update the snmpd configuration settings on nagios03 (which replaced nagios02 – which was intentionally destroyed earlier today). After the script completed, I could not access the ngaios3 website, nor could I ssh into the host. My first thoughts: I must have messed up the ssh configuration, I’ll fix it through the console. I can’t get to anything. Anywhere. WIFI now? No, it’s me that’s
Complete network shutdown – wtf? Read More »
This post shows my screenshots from the console of my Eaton 5PX as it was powered on. In this post: Eaton 5PX 2200 I was trying to clear the Replace Battery warning on my UPS after recently replacing the batteries. At present, the warning message has been cleared, I’m not sure how or why. Before taking these screen shots, the server connected to the UPS was not loading up the driver. This was
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