I'll admit that this is what I thought would happen with this server, but it was not the case. It may have been because of a miscalculation on the previous Tech's part. The UPS the 2900 was plugged into was a Smart 1000, but because there were other things plugged into it as well, the battery life is a whopping 9 minutes. The default setting of waiting until 10% battery life didn't give the server enough time to shut down. Not that any of this was tested, but that's between me and the tech that made the original recommendation. I've decided to replace all the UPSes in that server closet and am no figuring out the best way to manage the process.
From: Jeff Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 11:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: UPSes that restart servers. I have 15 Dell servers in 3 different locations. they are all plugged into APC brand units and they all come back up automatically after power comes back on. I intalled the APC units, and other than installing PowerChute did not make any changes to bios or windows settings on any of those machines. On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Jim Majorowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This may sound like a silly question, but I've only ever used APC and PowerChute Basic with my servers, which is great at shutting down servers during power outages and what not, but now I need a solution that will turn the server back on. I understand that my Dell servers have settings in their bios that can be set to start the server in the event that power is reapplied (PE2900), but I've a pair of older HP Proliants (An old ML310 and a ML330) that I don't think have this feature. Is there something in the Full version of PowerChute that would turn a server back on when the power is reapplied? ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
