That's right, with the network mgmt card you only need to hook it to your network and assign an IP address.
And there are storms on the way again and I really don't want to be stonewalled after all the $h!T I talked! I reserached the PCBE software but founjd with the hardware we already had in place the PCNS software would suffice. So under my watch I'd like to implement something to ensure JOB SECURITY! If you know what I mean. But the loss of data from the last outage was very bad. Here however there is nothing in place, no generator and the UPS will only run for about an hour to 2 TOPS! There is only 4 servers here though. We also had a HUGE UPS and ran about 8 servers on that to include an Exchange server, 2 file servers, an database server, and a phone data server and to top it off an alarm that would page me anytime we had a loss of power. My last assingment we had a backup generator hooked to a natural gas line that would run continuously as long as the gas kept coming. Well we did have a BIG loss of data during the last ice storm.
I'd probably script the shutdown locally on the server and then call that batch file from the Network Shutdown app, if it can do that. What's the fricken' point? If Spiceworks could pull the log info from the units then I'd stop using the PowerChute, and fill in the NIC's where I dont have them.įor you the answer is probably dependant on what is running on those servers. I had to pay for the software and now it won't talk to both the serial/USB units and the NIC units. I think the software that communicates with the cards is different than the PowerChute Business Edition, which ticks me off. Touch wood, though, we've never had any data loss or corruption when they shut down unaided.Īnother two weeks and my backup generator should be running, and then I will NEVER have to worry about it again. If I'm onsite when we lose power I will start shutting down the more critical servers first, especially the Oracle database. I think the issue was that the shutdown would hang, I think now that it was probably due to having the MMC open in Author Mode resulting in a prompt to save when trying to close it. I just have each UPS set to Maximum Runtime and when it shuts down it shuts down. It's always been something I wanted to set up, I think I did some testing at one point, had some issues and never followed through. Well, all my UPS to date are APC I just put about 8 of the Remote Management cards in I also run the PowerChute Business Edition software.
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