RE: UPS info needed

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Urbanek, Marty
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:08 AM
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Subject: RE: UPS info needed


Phil,

We have had good results with the Powerware UPS units for iSeries. We did have 
one recent horror story trying to get our latest one up and running - lots of 
finger-pointing between IBM and Powerware over who was supposed to provide 
service, since we bought the unit from IBM. But once working, it has been fine.

If you go to powerware.com and into their UPS Product Selector application, 
under Servers, it knows about various iSeries models.

http://www.powerware.com/UPS/Selector/BuildByDevice.asp

You need to have the correct cable (and sometimes special interface card) to 
connect the UPS to your iSeries. iSeries doesn't use the same pinouts as other 
machines serial connections.

Once you have the correct cable you will also need some software on the iSeries 
side, to read the UPS messages and determine when it is necessary to shutdown 
and to perform the shutdown. You can write this yourself and I think a few 
vendors offer their own products.

-Marty