[Nut-upsuser] staging shutdowns

[Darin Perusich]

Hi Bill,

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:53 PM, William Seligman
<seligman at nevis.columbia.edu> wrote:
>
> Here's how I handle it. In this case, the criteria is not when the power has
> shut down (I don't stage the shutdowns in that case) but if the air conditioner
> has failed and the temperature is rising in my server room. I want to shut down
> the less-important systems first, and gradually shut down more systems if the
> temperature continues to rise.
>
> The "tagger" script is something custom to our site. For purposes of this
> script, it defines what you refer to as group4, group3, etc.
>
> The "run_all.sh" script, which I can send you though it's pretty trivial, sends
> a group of systems the same command. I normally use it to patch my cluster, but
> here it's being used to send the "shutdown" command.
>
> I hope this is useful.

This was helpful. I just finished reading the Shutdown_design
documentation which was also very helpful in explaining how things
transpire. I'm experiencing NUT documentation overload right now since
I've never used it before.

--
Later,
Darin