Setup Shutdown Rules for Powerchute Business Edition

[BillP]

Hi support,

Good day. I've purchased a new APC Smart UPS 2200VA and configured it with  vMA to monitor my ESXi host. Everything works fine for now, I can browse to my PBEagent installed in my vMA and communication to my UPSis established correctly.

But now the problem is, I wish to configure the shutdown rules in Powerchute Agent Web Interface to perform a graceful shutdown to my VMs, followed by my ESXi hosts. I'm a newbie in setting up UPS monitoring and hopefully your side can provide some guidance in setting up this.

I've a following setup for my ESXi:

1) ESXi host 1: 192.168.88.101 with some VMs

    ESXi host 2: 192.168.88.102 with some VMS

    ESXi host 3: 192.168.88.103 with some VMs

2) vMA installed under 192.168.88.101 with PBE Agent installed.

I wish to do something like once there is power outage detected, all the VMs will shutdown gracefully and followed by shutting down ESXi hosts. Is there any guidance for this?

Thank you.

Best regards,

Kong

[BillP · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The instructions are discussed in Schneider Electric FAQ FA159688 

PowerChute commands the hosts down and the hosts power down the VMs.