How-To: Network your UPS

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Fuzz @ Jul 25th 2006 9:57PM

The APC software can run a program on a power event, so you can just get it to run the shutdown command, as described here:
http://www.ss64.com/nt/shutdown.html
and shut down as many systems as you wanted. Much simpler, since you don't need Linux, or any other machines.

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