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 >> -- -- Paul Coray Administrator Server und Netzwerk Oeffentliche Bibliothek der Universitaet Basel EDV-Abteilung Schoenbeinstrasse 18-20 CH-4056 Basel Tel: +41 61 267 05 13 Fax: +41 61 267 31 03 mailto:paul.coray@unibas.ch http://www.ub.unibas.ch _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Dec 11 03:16:14 2006
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