Goes the UPS.  WTF!?  We have power.  Why is the UPS complaining?  I check the unit.  Yep, it was on battery when every indication said it should be on line power.  Damn.  After a couple of hours the batteries were exhausted and the system shut down.  I plugged the server directly into line power and it came up immediately.  Damn.  The UPS is going bad even though it’s less than a year old.  I’ll deal with it in the morning.  It’s bed time.

3:30am: BEEEEEP!  WTF!?  That’s the UPS on one of the workstations.  Why the hell is it complaining?  I turned it off and went back to bed.

The next morning I plugged the server’s UPS into line power and it began charging up, no indications of a problem.  I go to the workstation (my daughter’s) and turn on the UPS.  It doesn’t complain.

The only explanation I have is the line power was just below what the UPSes considered acceptable.  Damn annoying since nothing else in the house had any problems with the power, including my own workstation which isn’t on a backup power supply.

The downside is it screwed up my server uptime, aka geek ePenis, which was over 200 days straight.  I guess I’ll never get to a full year of uptime.

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