Most datacenter contracts prohibit batteries in your cabinets. For good reason, relating to fire codes and firefighters knowing where to expect such hazards. The far better solution is yo have something external that can notice when a datacenter goes away or services stop responding. Owen
On Jul 23, 2025, at 08:44, Chris Adams via Outages-discussion <outages-discussion@outages.org> wrote:
Once upon a time, Paul M - outages <paul+outages@mansfield.co.uk> said:
The problem was the box was in the same datacentre as all the equipment. the whole district lost power, the UPSs ran dry, the backup generators failed and so when the power went out we were not alerted as there was no external monitoring.
We used a USB modem for SMS as well... and had a separate 2U rack-mount UPS just for the monitoring server.
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