Re: Now I'm Buying my first i5. :)

["David Turnidge" <daveturnidge@xxxxxxxxx>]

David, I may not have followed closely enough, bur are the "servers" being
referred to iSeries or M$ST? If iSeries, they have the ability to power on
to a fault... M$FT on the other hand need the finger to the button type
action...

On 9/10/07, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bradley V. Stone wrote:
> > Isn't there a way to tell it to shut down when power goes out?  If you
> have
> > software on a PC or the iSeries I would think you could send some
> commands
> > to shut it down?
>
> Oddly enough, some UPS's (mostly consumer grade) do not have the ability
> to be told to shut themselves off.
>
> I have a handful of APC UPS's (CircuitCity specials) on the servers that
> run midrange.com.  A few months ago we had a series of brownouts ...
> that eventually drained the battery.   The UPS monitoring software I use
> dutifully told the system to power off ... but, since the power came
> back, the system never powered on because the UPS never actually lost
> power.
>
> 'course this _COULD_ be due to a misconfiguration on my UPS software ...
> but I haven't had a chance to play with it.
>
> david
>
>
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