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Subject: Re: Automatic "down"
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From: ileader@sideways.gen.nz (Ian Leader)
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 91 23:44:11 NZS
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Organization: Sideways Bulletin Board, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
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heygel@rutishauser.inf.ethz.ch (Reto Heygel) writes:

> We would like to shutdown our novell (netware 386) system every night at
> let's say midnight. Our server is a NOVELL NCI-50 and we have connected
> 20 IBM PS/2 to it. Does anyone out there knows, how this can be done
> automatically?
> 
> Any help is appreciated very much!
> 
>      Reto Heygel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

One (rather devious) way of doing this would be to use a UPS monitoring 
board in the file server connected to some fairly simple electronics and 
a timer switch.  At midnight (or whatever) the 'black box' connected to 
the timer would set the necessary interface line to the UPS board to say 
that it was running on battery; then by setting the UPS DOWN TIME 
the server would (in an orderly fashion) down itself when it thought the 
'UPS' battery was about to run out!!  Read the Systems Administration 
Guide for Novell regarding the settings for the UPS monitoring 
software/hardware required.
 
I'm sure there must be an easier than this to do what you want, but that 
idea sprang to mind first.
   
         Ian Leader, Avalon Television Centre, Lower Hutt, New Zealand