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Conference decwet::windows-nt

Title:Windows NT
Notice:See note 15.0 for HCL location
Moderator:TARKIN::LIN.com::FOLEY
Created:Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:6086
Total number of notes:31449

6075.0. "Power failure notification to more than one system" by MS3100::tunsrv-remote.alf.dec.com::schell (Mark, OpenVMS and Windows NT Partner) Wed Jun 04 1997 12:00

This is both a HW and SW question, so here goes.

Customer has a large UPS (w/battery backup) and several servers.  How 
do you have all the servers get notified and shutdown if the 
batteries start to go dead?

While this may sound like a trivial question, my customer and I thot 
about this for quite a while before not having a good answer come to 
mind.

All suggestions, including software based messages, are welcome...

Mark

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6075.1Network communication...USPS::FPRUSSFrank Pruss, 202-232-7347Wed Jun 04 1997 12:107
    Most large UPS these days, including the ones we sell have a network
    interface and agents for our operating systems that get their outage
    info over the network.
    
    The serial connections are pretty old hat.
    
    FJP