If the UPS is properly configured and cabled.  The UPS should have told
MPEiX to perform a special SYSTEM ABORT, just before the battery
expired.  You will have gotten console messages warning about the
upcoming event.  Did you find anything in the system log files?  Or
where they not saved to disk.

It is reboots like these that makes the old teletype look real
attractive... :-)

Jim Phillips wrote:
>
> How can I tell for sure why my system is down?
>
> Here's the story:
>
> We do backups every day and because we don't have any operators, I come in
> on the weekends and mount a new tape.  When I came in on Sunday and Monday
> this weekend, the system (HPe3K 918) was down.  It was sitting at the "enter
> boot path" prompt (I can't remember the prompt, but it's where you enter
> "BOOT PRI").  Scrolling backward on the console showed nothing in terminal
> memory which to me indicates a power failure of sufficient duration to drain
> the UPS and crash the system, but how can I be sure this is what it is?
>
> Jim Phillips                            Manager of Information Systems
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