From: Paul Coray (paul.coray@unibas.ch)
Date: Mon Dec 11 2006 - 03:15:37 EST
Musas reply was the only one, and it confirms what the Sun-Engineer told
me. I feel the docs or/and release-notes of the firmware should be
clearer about this change in behavior of the battery lifespan...
Thx
Paul
Musa Williams schrieb:
> Change the battery when the system gripes about it. These batteries will
> last three years (the system will complain about it but the battery can
> actually last much longer) before needing to be changed.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> musa
>
> On 11/27/06, Paul Coray <paul.coray@unibas.ch> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I have a pair of Sun Sroredge 6120 Arrays. Firmware level is 3.1.4. Here
>> is the output of refresh -s:
>>
>> Current Date and Time: Mon Nov 27 09:43:09 MET 2006
>> Next Scheduled Refresh: Mon Dec 25 01:13:15 MET 2006
>>
>> Battery State Last Health Check Warranty Expiration
>> ------- ------- ----------------------------
>> ----------------------------
>> u1b1 normal Mon Nov 20 03:26:54 MET 2006 Thu Oct 20 14:55:10
>> MEST 2005
>> u1b2 normal Mon Nov 20 05:34:40 MET 2006 Thu Oct 20 14:55:19
>> MEST 2005
>> u2b1 normal Mon Nov 20 03:16:35 MET 2006 Thu Oct 20 17:45:48
>> MEST 2005
>> u2b2 normal Mon Nov 20 05:43:34 MET 2006 Thu Oct 20 17:46:00
>> MEST 2005
>>
>> Output from fru stat:
>>
>> POWER STATUS STATE SOURCE OUTPUT BATTERY TEMP FAN1
>> FAN2
>> ------ ------- ---------
>> ------ ------ ------- ------ ------ ------
>> u1pcu1 ready enabled line normal normal
>> normal normal normal
>> u1pcu2 ready enabled line normal normal
>> normal normal normal
>> u2pcu1 ready enabled line normal normal
>> normal normal normal
>> u2pcu2 ready enabled line normal normal
>> normal normal normal
>>
>> -> warranty expired a year ago, but battery seems still ok. A few weeks
>> ago at the Sun Hotline, an engineer told me, I should only exchange the
>> batteries when I am told to do so by syslog messages, i.e. when the
>> health check would fail.
>>
>> What is to believe: The warranty date or the health check? Best practice?
>>
>> Thanks in advance. Will summarize
>>
>> Paul
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