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Connect a UPS to Synology for safe shutdown

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To connect a UPS and configure safe automatic shutdown on power loss, the knowledge base says to do this in Control Panel > Hardware & Power > UPS.

Local USB UPS
Important notes
If the NAS will act as a network UPS server
If another Synology NAS will use that UPS over the network

Sources used: [10], [11], [12], [13], [15]

SOURCES
[1] Synology DiskStation User's Guide - Based on DSM 4.0 — Document[2] Synology NAS User's Guide - Based on DSM 7.1 — Document[3] Synology NAS User's Guide - Based on DSM 7.0 — Document[4] Synology DiskStation User's Guide - Based on DSM 4.1 — Document[5] synoupgrade — command reference[6] systemd-inhibit — command reference[7] synopkg — command reference[8] Synology Knowledge Center[9] Synology Knowledge Center[10] UPS | DSM - Synology Knowledge Center[11] UPS | DSM - Synology Knowledge Center[12] UPS | DSM - Synology Knowledge Center[13] UPS | DSM - Synology Knowledge Center[14] UPS | DSM - Synology Knowledge Center[15] UPS | DSM - Synology Knowledge Center
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