
Dual Power Management
154 BLACK BOX ® Advanced Console Server
Dual Power Management
The BLACK BOX ® Advanced Console Server comes with two power supplies which it can
self-monitor. If either of them fails, two actions are performed: sounding a buzzer and generat-
ing a syslog message. This automanagement can be disabled (no actions are taken) or enabled
(default), any time by issuing the commands:
signal_ras buzzer off
signal_ras buzzer on
To disable the buzzer in boot time, edit the shell script /bin/ex_wdt_led.sh and remove the
keyword “buzzer.” The buzzer won’t sound if there is a power failure in any power supply.
This parameter does not affect the behavior of the command “signal_ras buzzer on/off.” To
make this change effective even after future reboots, create a line with “/bin/ex_wdt_led.sh”
in /etc/config_files, save and quit that file and run saveconf.
Parameters Involved and Passed Values
There are no parameters to be configured. However, if you want to generate alarms in case of
a power failure, the syslog-ng.conf file must be changed. See the section Generating Alarms
.
Configuration for CAS
vi Method
Files to be changed:
/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf
Browser Method
Follow the steps described in the section “Generating Alarms.”
Note: This section applies only to the dual power supply model of the BLACK
BOX ® Advanced Console Server.
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