I don't know if this helps, but I wrote a perl script that can be called from whats
up gold to go in and reset a server when it goes down...
Julia
Quoting David Rankin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Sorry if this is a little off topic:
>
> I had my LM7.2 server go down for the 4th time due to a power
> outage. I had to manually fsck /dev/hda7 to bring the system back up. I
> am convinced that this is not a good way to treat the server and I am
> going to buy an APC UPS to keep it from happening again.
>
> What I need to know is if anyone has any advice on how to configure
> the APC box to send a shutdown signal over the serial port to nicely
> shut the server down. I don't have any experience with UPS's and just
> want to make sure I'll be able to accomplish getting the UPS to talk to
> my server and shut it down before I go spend the money on a UPS.
>
> All of the APC UPSs come with software to shut windows down, but
> don't say a thing about Linux. How do I get it to work with my server?
> Advise would be great, but if you can just point me to the right docs, I
> don't have a problem reading.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> David C. Rankin
> Nacogdoches, Texas
>
>
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