Hi all,
Having some trouble getting a UPS set up for automatic shutdown. Scenario I have is
1x APC smart UPS 1000 with only serial and USB interface, no network
4x VMWare hosts running ESXi 5.5 on 3 and 5.0 on another
1x physical box running 2012R2, UPS connected via USB to this.
What I was trying to accomplish is for the UPS to signal power loss to the physical windows machine and then that physical initiate the shutdown on the 4 hosts. I've installed PowerChute (9.1) Agent, Server and Console on the Windows machine and am able to access the web interface and console, software able to pick up UPS ok, it's just now extending this connection to the hosts.
Tried deploying vMA with PowerChute agent installed to one of the hosts, however the agent only asks for either a DB connection or RJ45, and my server/console on the windows box isn't...