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INFORMATION BULLETIN: Potential Issue with AP8XXX series Rack Power Di...

FYI: INFORMATION BULLETIN: Potential Issue with AP8XXX series Rack Power Distribution Units with rpdu2g v6.0.9 firmware For AP8XXX series Rack Power Distribution products (AP84XX, AP86XX, AP88XX, AP89...
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Change the name of your PNS Virtual Appliance

Hi ,I have deployed a Virtual Appliance with PNS in it.As soon as i use the plugin to configure the PNS in VCenter,the name of the appliance is displayed as localhost.how can i change this?See attached...
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PCNS configuration issue

Hi i was testing PCNS and my run.bat script.If i set delay time 120 sec for ups on battery event and 120 sec for run command duration, from the event log i can see the script running, and my server shu...
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PowerChute Business Agent and VMware ESXi issues

Hi!We own a Dell Smart-UPS 1500VA LCD RM 2U 230V and we are trying to communicate it to a VMware ESXi host through the DB9/RJ-45 cable.I have deployed the vMA in the ESXi, using vSphere Client, added t...
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What is the best way to monitor and send notifications from many Smart...

We are a Digital Controls Group specializing in high level automated buildings on one the largest research campuses in the nation. We have field devices that perform smoke control functions and superv...
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Network communication

I just got my hands on 2 SUA1000RMI2U's with the network card in it. My goal eventually is to get it to talk on the network and setup VMs to shutdown from network communication with this ups.I got an a...
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UPS: Lost the local network management interface-to-UPS communication

HiI have been receiving this alert from several of my UPS. UPS: Lost the local network management interface-to-UPS communication They are all model # Smart UPS 1000 XL. With the AP 9630 Network mana...
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NMC-controlled UPS shutdown in a mixed PCNS and non-PCNS environment

Hi there,Been reading this great forum for over a week already. I've studied almost all the topics regarding NMC and PCNS, also read the article written by Steve Jenkins, viewed the shutdown charts and...
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Network Shutdown Summary

Hi,I spent nearly a week (on and off) trying to install, fathom, and configure PCNS to work with PC and Mac. I'm no stranger to configuring things like this, but I hit wall after wall trying to underst...
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PCNS fails to shutdown vmware host which is running vCenter Server VM

Hello all, I'm experience problems using PCNS 3.1 to gracefully bring down my vSphere environment in the event of a power failure. Below are the details of my environment, and the problem I'm encounte...
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PowerChute Network Shutdown 3.1 problem

Actually I fixed this problem by the time I got registered, so I will pass along the problem/solution. I installed PowerChute Network Shutdown 3.1 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server, and used the Java...
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