Powerchute software to shutdown base on battery percentage left?

[Anonymous user]

Hello,

I'm trying to find out if it's possible to configure the Powerchute software on the clients to shutdown based on battery percentage left on the Symmetra 80K UPS as it seems the only thing I can configure for the event "UPS: On Battery" is the number of seconds the event last before issuing the shutdown signal. I have like 100 servers and I currently have to go to each server and manually configure and change this value and since we just added more battery capacity it means I will need to go to each 100 servers and update the value again. If there is a way to set it to a percentage it would be best that way I can set each server to shutdown at like 10% battery life left once and not have to re-adjust each time a new server is added since runtime will be less after each new hardware added.

Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous user · Accepted solution]

Take a look at apcupsd. It is free and can perform a shutdown based on battery %. They have clients for Windows. I am currently using it on my Linux Servers talking to a APC Symmetra over the netowrk. I have not tried it on Windows yet but I did install it to verify that you have the same options. I hope this helps. I don't understand why APC wouldn't have this feature either.