<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
Kjell Claesson wrote:
<blockquote
cite="mid:200908291251.52716.kjell.claesson@epost.tidanet.se"
type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Should I try changing the polling frequency just to see if it helps</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->Don't think it would help. If it would be a problem with poll frequency, the
error should be continuous and constant. The same is if there was any problem
with the driver to the specific model of ups you are running.
The driver polls the same data every time, so the error should happen on every
poll.
</pre>
</blockquote>
It doesn't happen on every poll, sometimes it goes a half-hour at a
time with no errors.<br>
<br>
<blockquote
cite="mid:200908291251.52716.kjell.claesson@epost.tidanet.se"
type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Can you relate the errors in the log to any activity? Is the time random
or is it spread evenly over time ?
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">I am not getting any other errors or events or significance or that
correspond with the UPS errors. The comm errors are not continuous, but
there doesn't seem to be a strict pattern. They seem to cluster one
every minute or two for between two and ten minutes at a time, with
periods of between a half hour to an hour of quiet between the clusters</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->This sound like a kind of EMI. Do you have the beer fridge
beside the computer :-)
Check your vicinity for any source of EMI. Fan motors for ventilation, old
dimmers, fridges, air-condition.
</pre>
</blockquote>
The equipment is in a cabinet in a data center environment, and is the
only cabinet in the row with any equipment in it. There is no row in
front, and the row behind contains only datacomm equipment -- routers
and switches.<br>
<br>
I tried replacing the cable and re-routing as far away as possible from
any power cables, and also connected it to a different server, and
still get the same result. One thing I noted though, is that the serial
card in the UPS is beige (Compaq) in color, while the rest of the UPS
is gray (HP) in color, so I am guessing it was swapped at some point. I
wonder if that card is the problem. I have another, so I will try
swapping it out and see if that helps.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
David<br>
<br>
</body>
</html>