if we are really trying to make the hp 3000 the platform of choice for
business critical applications this seems to be a week link.  perhaps it
should go on some enhancement request list.  why should I have to have a
NT server and its ups so that I can cleanly shut my hp 3000 down?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Woods [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 1999 7:08 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      RE: apc power ups
>
> 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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