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New SMT3000 Battery Problems?

Hi, I have a two to three week old SMT3000 manufactured in July 2012 that I think may have battery problems. I initiated a run-time calibration test for the first time today and the battery remaining p...
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NMC Config and PCNS to Shut Down

Hi everyone, Last night i had situation regarding Powerchute client, my UPS model is Smart-UPS 5000 and what happened is the UPS goes to on battery mode and after 10 minutes the server shutdown althoug...
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AP9631J log files - is event.txt shown in the web UI?

Other posts on this forums recommend logging into the UPS via FTP and copying down the event.txt file when there is a problem. My question is, is this file the same as what is shown in the web UI? Is t...
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which pcns do I need

I installed pcns 4 for linux to connect to esxi host did I install the wrong one? do I need PowerChute Network Shutdown v4.2 for Virtualization instead?
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SU1500RM2U Question

Hello, just a question around battery replacement. I got an SU1500RM2U that has a battery with no charge. The unit was off for sometime and has completely discharged I believe. The UPS itself works fin...
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The best way to simulate a power failure

Hi, we had 3 batteries fail in our Symmetra unit a few days ago, after an outage. Ejecting them and putting them back in fixed them. We do want to simulate a power failure, just to see how true the 1hr...
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ESXi Network shutdown on VM Guest

Hi, we have two ESXi hosts in the branch offices around the globe named "CityVM01a" and "CityVM01b".The ESXi hosts "CityVM01a" and "CityVM01b" and the ESXi hosts from other branch offices are configure...
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Symmetra LX 16 RM - New Batteries won't charge

Hello, We recently purchased new SYBT5 batteries and installed them into our 3 year old LX 16. The UPS does not seem to want to charge the batteries. They've been installed for weeks but they show a lo...
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Communicate with SMART-UPS and BACK-UPS with a .NET application

Hi, We have 250 customer's computers handle with BACK-UPS and SMART-UPS. We try to use PowerChute to send to ups, an hibernate command, to restart the computer after power failing. This functionnality ...
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Status: BOOST ONLINE

Hello everyone, an easy question for you, i think so. What does the Status: BOOST ONLINE mean? When apperas it? What are the reasons for it? My Model ist the Smart-UPS SC450 RM. Im from germany an ther...
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PCNS Runtime Exceeded

Hey all Last night I rolled out a windows update to our PCNS Server that controls our virtual environment (VMWare) following the server coming up a run time exceeded was stated see log below this then ...
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