widdicom@ADS.COM (Greg Widdicombe) (02/07/91)
What exactly are UPS monitoring cards and VAPs? I expect they are a
means to detect a UPS has kicked in and perform an orderly shutdown,
broadcast system warnings etc. How do they work?
I am interested in performing an "orderly" system shutdown (is there
such as beast :-) and system broadcast upon reception of a particular
hardware generated signal from an external source (not a UPS) and
think that this may be the way to achieve it. If I can fake the
board/VAP/??? into triggering, then I have accomplished my goal.
Could a generic monitor board/VAP be used for this?
Can anyone give vendor names/#'s to contact further, or real life
scenarios.
Thanks in advance.
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