Ok, the battery is fine. Ahem.
Turns out that plugging in my monitoring cable stops the UPS from running from the battery… That’s some cable design, eh ?
Maybe next time I won’t just go for the pinout of a cable from a Russian site, and find one where I can actually read the accompanying [...]
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Ok, so the crashes may not have been so odd – my UPS might be dead
I (finally) made up a simple APC UPS cable, and built apcupsd for the Qube. Logging looked good, with 60 second health entries in the log file. Pressed the Test button. Server goes off. [...]
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