RE: UPSes that restart servers.

2008-03-06 Thread Ken Schaefer
Because when the power fails, the most important thing is that people can still print! LOL Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 7 March 2008 11:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: UPSes that restart servers. On Thu, Mar 6, 2008

Re: UPSes that restart servers.

2008-03-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Jim Majorowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. I once had a SOHO client who tried plugging their giant high-

RE: UPSes that restart servers.

2008-03-06 Thread Jim Majorowicz
Ses 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

Re: UPSes that restart servers.

2008-03-06 Thread Jeff Brown
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 machine

Re: UPSes that restart servers.

2008-03-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Ames Matthew B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... UPS drops to say 20% remaining, it control shuts down your server ... > ... What will make the UPS start to supply power again? The APC Smart-UPS lines has an EEPROM setting that controls how long the UPS waits. Y

RE: UPSes that restart servers.

2008-03-06 Thread Ames Matthew B
other servers? Cheers, Matt From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 March 2008 15:50 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: UPSes that restart servers. Thanks Ben. I guess I'm going to need to schedule some down time on these servers and refresh my memory about what

RE: UPSes that restart servers.

2008-03-06 Thread Damien Solodow
With the HP servers it's the iLo, and they've had them standard on servers for at least 3 years now. From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: UPSes that restart servers. I don't think

RE: UPSes that restart servers.

2008-03-06 Thread Jim Majorowicz
Thanks Ben. I guess I'm going to need to schedule some down time on these servers and refresh my memory about what can be done with the bios. From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: UPSes that re

RE: UPSes that restart servers.

2008-03-06 Thread Jim Majorowicz
I don't think so. If they do, I'm not sure I've ever used it. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: UPSes that restart servers. Do your HP servers have any sort of remote access cards in

RE: UPSes that restart servers.

2008-03-05 Thread Benjamin Zachary
Im not sure how to 'turn it on' other than set it in the bios to reboot upon power loss or last state. APC has an option to cut power with their web mgmt card that I saw long ago allowing the remote user to 'cycle' power using the webcard on the apc. From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: UPSes that restart servers.

2008-03-05 Thread Sam Cayze
Do your HP servers have any sort of remote access cards in them similar to DRAC cards in Dells? It's a little web server embedded in a management chip that stays powered on in the server as long the power supplies have power. It allows you to remote boot, reboot, kvm, etc... ___