On 6/10/26 17:37, American Citizen wrote: > To all > > I am struggling to recover from a very bad power failure during a key > upgrade from my OS openSuse Leap 15.6 to Leap 16.0 upgrade. > > My UPS unit completely clicked off right during the backup. > > It has been several hours now and I am trying to carefully pick up all > the pieces and verify that I did NOT lose any data. > > My question to all of you is simple: > > How can you tell the health of the lead-acid batteries in your UPS unit? > From what I can gather, this cannot be done live via any linux operations. > > My lead acid batteries were shot, and bulging out their case. > > Yes I was aware that I had 5 years time on these back up lead-acid > batteries and was risking total failure, which actually occurred this > afternoon for me. > > How do you keep on top of the UPS units so you don't have a rather > foolish incident like mine today? > > Randall > > p.s My unit was the Cyberpower CP1350AVRLCD (see > https://www.cyberpowersystems.com/product/ups/intelligent-lcd/cp1350avrlcd/) > > > There are a few utilities to monitor UPS status, self test, shutdown, etc via USB connection. Most distros will already have upower/upowers installed. This is accessible via the power applet in KDE/Xfce/etc settings and by command line to provide some basic information.
For fancier monitoring, here are the top 3: --> https://networkupstools.org/ https://www.cyberpowersystems.com/product/software/power-panel-personal/powerpanel-personal-linux/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/apcupsd/ -Ed
