While I will not include myself in the "wise ones" group, I can sometimes
find my way around the Internet.  At http://docs.hp.com (thanks, HP) I found
the following:

From the "Performing System Management Tasks" manual

System Behavior When AC Power Returns

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If AC power returns before the UPS battery becomes exhausted (up to fifteen
minutes when starting with fully charged UPS batteries; less if the
batteries were already partially discharged), then the system recovers from
the AC power failure and resumes normal operation. In this case, UPS
Monitor/iX displays a message on the system console, posts an entry in the
system log files, and broadcasts the following message to all active user
terminals:

   ** RECOVERY FROM POWERFAIL **

You can try telling the CIO that to cool him/her down.

To prevent the powerfail message from reaching overly-anxious eyes, here's
an excerpt from the version 7.5 "MPE/iX System Utilities Reference Manual"
under UPSUTIL (I don't know if this is only be available in 7.5 or if it can
be had by patching earlier versions)

UPS Monitor Configuration Options

Here are the available configuration options (configuration "commands") for
UPS Monitor configuration files.

Powerfail Message Routing   The powerfail message routing configuration
option allows you to choose how the UPS Monitor will handle its issuance of
the HP e3000 system's ** RECOVERY FROM POWERFAIL ** message, which is issued
at the end of every power failure event -- when AC power has returned to all
UPSs -- to notify the system operator and (optionally) system users of the
completion of a power failure cycle.

parameter name: powerfail_message_routing

parameter values:

(a) all_terminals

To send the notification message to the system console and to all user
terminals.

(b) console_only

To send the notification message only to the system console. No notification
messages are sent to any user terminals.

Regards,

Adam Dorritie
Easy Does It Technologies LLC
(702) 807-2144
http://www.editcorp.com

John Hornberger pleads:

> I am appealing to the wise ones among us concerning the removal of the
> friendly "*** RECOVERY FROM POWERFAIL" messages that appear on the
> HPe3000. I was greeted with two of those events this morning when our
> building took a momentary power hit that made the lights flicker for
> about a tenth of a second or so each time. Even though my HPe3000
> KS959/300 is powered by a dual online UPS system with both battery and
> diesel generator backup the computer still detects these momentary power
> hits. Naturally, out of the one hundred or so computer systems running in
> the equipment room the HPe3000 is the only one to post such a message.
>
> Well, this anomalous event has caught the attention of my CIO now, and I
> won't be able to rest until I can find some way to stop these messages.
> Please, oh wise ones, I need your help.

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