On 22/11/09 14:36, Adrian Brentnall wrote:

Are you saying that the ups could handle the graceful shutdown of one
win (XP) pc? - 'cos that might be all that's needed..

Yes, XP itself includes basic UPS software (in control panel, power
settings) that will talk to a SMARTUPS and automatically shut it down.

You can install more sophisticated software from APC themselves (though
they've started charging for some of this now) that lets you use an
agent to shutdown several machines other than the one that has the
serial/USB connection.

Alternatively there is opensource software called NUT which will allow
remote monitoring/shutdown of multiple computers (linux or windows) but
maybe overkill for most users.