Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!convex!egsner!csccat!cscdec!jack From: jack@cscdec.cs.com (Jack Hudler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Subject: Re: UPS's and Novell Keywords: UPS Message-ID: <104@cscdec.cs.com> Date: 21 Jan 91 19:44:07 GMT References: <2788B9A3.11730@ics.uci.edu> <1991Jan12.123440.24716@ims.alaska.edu> <1991Jan16.101146.14688@ims.alaska.edu> Reply-To: jack@cscdec.cs.com (Jack Hudler) Distribution: usa Organization: Computer Support Corporation. Dallas,Texas Lines: 29 In article kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto) writes: >wait a sec, you're telling me if I get a cable to go from my Best UPS and >hook it up to the server (in this case, its a AST Premium 386/25 that has >a PS/2 mouse port in addition to the 2 serial ports, running NW 386 v3.1) >the server is going to be able to do an unattended shutdown, without software >from BEST? How? explain this to me. There's this little board you buy, its called, "The stand-alone UPS monitor board". You create a file called SERVER.CFG in SYS$SYSTEM. It looks like this; UPS TYPE=1 UPS IO=231h UPS DOWN=5 UPS WAIT=120 You DOWN to server, set the proper jumps, install the card, plug in the UPS monitor cable to the card, and then bring it back up... you get a little message: UPS Enabled. When power fails, it issues a message on the console saying something about "UPS power online" and that the server will go down in 5 minutes unless the batteries are low, then is comes down in 1 minute. If power is restored you get a message saying "Commercial (sp?) power restored". -- Jack Computer Support Corporation Dallas,Texas Hudler Internet: jack@cscdec.cs.com