[WBEL-users] Power failures and Sending sms from server

[Simone]

Thanks a lot for your replies and suggestions. The BIOS was set up 
properly, "After power loss - ON", but I suppose power came back while 
the server was in the "Power down" state, not giving the BIOS a chance 
to detect the change and restart. I guess now the only way is to check 
if a BIOS upgrade could fix it, or maybe WBEL4 will have a different 
power management. I'll check both opportunities.
Thanks for the hint on SMS, my SMS email service sucks unfortunately, so 
I guess I would receive the sms  way too late, but I'll give it a  try,  
as you suggested. 

Have a nice day,
Simone

Benjamin Smith wrote:

>Having the system reboot when you turn power back on is a BIOS setting. 
>Usually something in the "advanced" area. Look for "default power state" or 
>something similar. I'd suggest setting it to "always on" since you're talking 
>about a server. 
>
>To get an SMS message on bootup, just send an email to your SMS email address. 
>I'm a verizon wireless customer, I have a one-liner in /etc/rc.d/rc.local 
>like: 
>
>echo "server rebooted" | mail -s "ServerXYZ rebooted" MYPHONENUMBER at vtext.com 
>
>Here's a useful page I bookmarked a while back... 
>http://www.island.com/toolsresearch/indiv/helpfaq/instantalertsfaq.asp
>
>-Ben 
>
>On Wednesday 09 March 2005 09:36, Simone wrote:
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>>Hi, just yesterday night we had a power failure.  The mailfiltering 
>>"server" (Compaq 4420EA PC) is WBEL, and after running a while on ups it 
>>shut down cleanly (NUT over a MGE Ellipse ups). The problem is that it 
>>doesn't really shut down the machine but it stays with a "Power down" 
>>message, and when the power comes back it doesn't restart. I tried 
>>passing apm=power_off, apm=power-off or acpi=on arguments to the kernel 
>>in the grub.conf with no success. I was wondering if there's a way to 
>>solve this, or a way around it.
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>>Another thing is that it would be veeeery nice if this machine could 
>>send me an sms in case of failures that I need to know. Did a search, 
>>found some interesting projects, one above all kannel, but it looks a 
>>bit too much for my needs. Is there any good piece of software you would 
>>suggest?
>>
>>Thank you all for your time, have a nice day
>>Simone
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