Eksdom has done it again! I honestly don’t know what they think when they cut the power, but it’s crippling the economy & the country.Due to the many blackouts I’ve lost a UPS, and a server with 250GB’s of very very important company data, which I moved off the old server just the previous day. I was still busy preparing the new backup hard drive, but was too late. Thank you for costing my business a lot of money in unwanted damage.
I have a situation where I have 1 large, 1000W UPS & 3 PC’s connected to it. But it’s a cheapo, so it only has one serial communications port, which is currently connected to my Linux SME 7.2 server. The 2 Windows XP machines won’t know if the power is out, or if the UPS’s batteries are dead. So, even though the UPS keeps all running well for short power spikes, it’s not ideal for blackouts. I’m planning on getting an inverter & some 12V 102AH batteries to extend the backup time, but don’t have the money for it right now.
So, I have to tell Windows XP to shutdown when the UPS’s batteries are running down.
To automate things, I need something that I can run from a script in Linux. The UPS has a shutdown script, which is rather convenient to use for this purpose. So, here’s what I’ll need:
….. this entry will continue as soon as I can figure out how to format text in Wordpress like in a forum
EDIT: I have been able to format the text in Wordpress, so now I can continue …..
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