Hi,
I have a Mikrotik Cloud Core router with a USB attached UPS.
I want to notify somehow my other device, which is a Mikrotik Cloud Core Switch, in case of a power outage or restore detected by the UPS.
So somehow the router should forward the UPS’s notifications.
Router can hibernate then wake up. Wake up part is also important at the switch side, of course.
Is this possible? Maybe SNMP?
Thanks & br,
Halacs
The problem with Mikrotik devices (all of them AFAIK) is that when shutdown is executed, ROS does terminate but then device needs to be powered off manually … it just sits there and does nothing. And while doing nothing it still consumes quite high power (compared to normal operations). Which means that such state doesn’t help with power authonomy much. The other problem is that power may restore after shutdown of Mikrotik and before UPS shutdown … which means router will sit dead until somebody manually cycles power. And according to MT staff devices are designed to handle power outages without prior executing shutdown.
So I wonder whether it’s benefitial to bother about the issue …
And according to MT staff devices are designed to handle power outages without prior executing shutdown.
This is a new information for me which means, especially with others you mentioned, I shouldn’t care about power outage at all. If UPS is exhausted then it will turn off and will cause power outage for Mikrotik devices which is then okay.
I have bad experiences with Juniper: manual intervention was needed in case of a few Juniper devices. So this is why I was a bit worried.