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What happen to UPS when power is restored while on graceful shutdown d...

Hi all,I have a SMART UPS XL 3000 with a NMC. I am actually configuring PCNS in a VMware environnement for graceful shutdown in case of power failure. Everything is fin for the moment, but there is sti...
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Connect the UPS to an external charger.

We have a APC 10000 and severals APC 2500 UPSsen. In case of a power interruption we can ge on for 20 minutes before our UPS is empty, Our most important services (we are a small internet provider base...
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Smart-UPS RT 7500 XL - 100% capacity, discharged

Hello,we recently replaced all batteries from our Smart-UPS RT 7500 XL. After that the APC network management card reports: Discharged, No Other Alarms PresentAfter that we let it untouched for a week ...
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BR1500G Display

The status display on the BR1500G is great. Aside from providing shutdown options using the USB cable (and Power Chute on a PC), is software available (for Mac, in my case) that would allow me to displ...
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Windows Embedded APC UPS and MSDN Registry Data

Does APC provide a UPS minidriver for WES7 (Windows Embedded 7)? MSDN describes UPS\Status Registry Entries (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/battery/ups-status-registry-entrie...
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PowerChute Business v Network Shutdown with VM Workstation

An end user has the following hardware and wants to shutdown the VMs on their Workstation then the Server in the event of an outage. Server: Win 7 Ultimate (64-bit)Workstation: Win 7 (Pro edition). Th...
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difference Low Battery Duration and Basic Low Battery Duration

Hello, what is the difference between Low Battery Duration and Basic Low Battery Duration?
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right configuration for Vmware Cluster with 2 different UPS

Hi, We have a cluster with 3 hosts in 2 different locations. 2 hosts (VH1 and VH3) in one location with an UPS1 and 1 host (VH2) with UPS2. So on the first step we will monitor UPS2 and if the is a pow...
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PCNS 4.2 not available after deploy

Hi,i have a vCenter 6.5 and two ESXi Host 6.5. I want to shutdown these with PCNS Virtual Appliance.- I deploy the Appliance- I configure the network- I boot the Appliance- I set the unix passwordBut i...
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Site Wiring Fault keeps showing up in the APC event log

We have an APC UPS connected to a server and the UPS is being monitored by PCNS software. We continually see messages in the log file …Site Wiring Fault. It occurs at different times for different dura...
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APC Xs1500 Telephone cable to where?

I purchased a XS1500 and want to plug in the telephone cable to my iMac so I can have it power down automatically but I cannot figure which telephone jack it goes into on the APC? There are three jack...
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