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Hello,
I have failed our servers and did not know how it goes down unexpected, can is there any way if power off unexpected is it any where logged on linux ?
If the power goes off unexpectedly, the server would have to power to write that into a log.
I think the best you can probably do is check when the last entries in the "/var/log" files were made. That would give you approximate time of shutdown. And, might give you a clue as to what was running when it died. If you are wondering about it being a hardware failure, knowing when it died and what was running might help you track down the problem.
If it was a simple power failure, then without a battery backup which can communicate with the server itself, there's no way I know of to know when exactly the system shut down.
If you have a UPS that linux talks to, it will shut down the server "normally" and you can add a marker in your shutdown script. If you do not have a UPS, the OS (whichever you use) will not have time to write anything.
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