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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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Shutdown of ESXi VMs?

Is it possible to configure APC network management card to work with vmware ESXi such that when there is a power trip, it will trigger all the VMs to shutdown?
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APC 1500 Smart UPS

Hello everyone. I place a post here a few weeks ago about my Trip Lite and no one could assist me. I figured as much as they are kinds old. Any how, I don't know if this is the correct spot to place th...
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Question on NMC Config and reboot

Hello, I have a number of SMT2200RM2U UPS's in my switch closets that contain Network Management Cards (unsure of model #). I have been tasked with configuring them and getting them on our network. I...
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Older RS1500 UPS - VIDEO, 4 beeps, no green light SN JB0531036383

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Several Smart UPS devices for our city network, configuration help nee...

OK, I am new to the UPS integration world and need some guidance. We have deployed 11 - SURTA2200 with NMC2 and 4 - SMX 1500 with NMC2 (NMC2s are all 9631 cards). All of these UPS provide power to Cisc...
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