RE: APC UPS shutdown of HA and other servers?

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just found and bought a dual port smart card for the UPS off of EBay
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=A312 :) So I'll use that with powerchute to start with.

xAP monitor sounds good though. I know there's a UPS plug-in for HS - so
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at may also be an option?

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Tim Hawes
> Sent: 29 August 2006 21:04
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] APC UPS shutdown of HA and other servers?
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> I've looked at this for Riello UPSs before, but image APC would have a
> similar solution. The Riello units indeed had a network card and a bit
> of s/w to install on each protected PC.
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> A xAP solution sounds good though and, IIRC, it was mentioned on the
> xAP list in the last week or so.
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> HTH,
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> Tim.
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> On 8/29/06, Paul Gale <groups@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I used to run a bit of software that would shut down several PC's
> connected to an APC UPS =96 can't remember what it was called though.
> However, it was quite unreliable and crashed the W2K3 server several
> times. Since then (at least a year ago), I've not had proper UPS
shutdown
> protection on my HA server.
> >
> > What options are there for doing this these days? I think my UPS
has an
> option slot =96 would some kind of Ethernet card be the best route and
> powerchute on several PC's???
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Paul.
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