Well, if one has a HP-UX system in the same computer room, one could let it's
shutdown sequence send a command (scripted FTP perhaps) to the MPE system to
stop the things one can...

Richard


Jeff Woods wrote:
>
> Privately, I got the following question in response to my commons on shutting
> down apps and users during a power fail:
> >How do you link a job/command script to the power trap of the ups?
>
> I expect it's possible to rig up an interface directly from a UPS to an HP3000,
> but it seems that it may be easier (though probably neither simpler nor more
> reliable) to use the tools provided with the UPS to notify another system such
> as a UNIX or NT machine and then to have that machine use some network
> mechanism to invoke a job or other command script or whatever on the MPE
> machine(s) actually depending on that UPS.
>
> I haven't done this and know it has plenty of weak links, but I expect it to be
> the quickest way to cobble together a solution that is a first step in the
> right direction.
> --
> Jeff Woods
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