Re- [WinMac] Power Failure/Elegant Shutdown?

Mo! Langdon(maureen[at]mail1.jpl.nasa.gov)
Sun, 27 Sep 1998 15:20:52 -0700

Michael Evans wrote:
>
> I live in Georgia where we get random power outages lasting
> for 5 to 15 minutes in the middle of the night about once or
> twice a month.
>
> Does anyone have experience to share about devices (apc's?)
> that can help in the event of a short outage and perhaps shut
> down an unattended NT Server automatically if the outage is
> longer than 15 minutes?.
>
> Does anything similar exist for a Mac?

All of my servers and my server monitor (Macs, of course!) are on APC
UPSes, using the embarrassingly retarded and feature-challenged Mac
version of PowerChute.

All of the servers' PowerChutes are set to put the servers to sleep
after 5 minutes; I have no use for servers' being up while the
electricity goes down and comes back up and goes back down and surges
and sags and...

My server monitor, a G3 desktop and 19" monitor, is set to "go down"
after fifteen minutes, so it can finish beeping me about all the rest;
works like a charm.

Mac PowerChute, among its other features, is a major CPU hog; all of my
PowerChutes have had a little ResEdit hack to settle them down, and they
are now camping happy on all servers.

BTW, all of our PC servers have APC UPSes hanging off the back of 'em; I
understand they're a hit on that side of the house, as well.

Sla/n,

Mo!

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