I am looking at purchasing the network card and temp/humidity sensor to put into my APC Smart-UPS 1500 unit. My goal is to be able to monitor the room temperature and humidity and then set threshholds so the APC unit can shutdown my servers (Hyper-V guests) gracefully. For example, if the AC unit dies and the room temp reaches 80 degrees I want to initiate a shutdown of the servers. Ideally I would also like to specify the order. I am also wanting to shutdown the servers when the batteries reach a threshhold as well.
I am interested to know if anyone has set this up and how effective it is.
Thanks in advance!