RE: Email notification of utility failure?

George,

If you have a 270, then you have all of the software necessary to power
the system down prior to UPS failure.  The only missing component might
be a cable from your UPS to the AS/400.  Properly configured with a UPS
monitoring program and the appropriate system values, you will have a
program that executes at the appropriate time.  See the link below for
more details.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/info/rzahr/rzahrovrvwco
.htm

Once you have the program executing, you can send out an email message,
wait a few seconds, then power the machine down properly.

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> On Behalf Of George Kinney
> Subject: Email notification of utility failure?
> 
> We've just spent the morning cleaning up after the second prolonged
> utility
> outage (during the weekend to boot) in the past month, and its got me
> wondering.
> 
> Can anyone recommend any software (OS400 or NT) that can provide
> email/pager
> notification of UPS events?
> We don't need anything fancy, just one small 270 to babysit, and I'd
> like it
> (or one of the NT boxes, I'm impartial.) to contact me before it shuts
> down
> so I can come in and push the power button (or tell someone onsite to)
> instead of getting woke up by angry users.
> 
> Smaller and the cheaper are better.