Ken and Bruce already discussed the complexity of a "clean shutdown"
upon powerfail notification (how dow exclude false alarms or short
outages? how long does a good shutdown take? what if the power comes
back in time? etc). This is probably why the current implementation
takes the route of "only do an emergency system abort when UPS tells
us about being to drain battery in something like 2 minutes"...

> Continuous scanning of log files
>is a bit inefficient, but if have reasonable cycle time probably
>not intolerable for most systems...

As far as I understand, the UPS (at least the HP one) does talk to
the 3000 via that serial cable. So if one does not want the limited
functionality of UPS Monitor/iX, it might be a viable approach to
deconfigure the HPUPSDEV ports in NMMGR or SYSGEN(?) and talk to the
serial device with a self-written monitor job/program...

Lars (just a think_pink idea)