Hi all,<br><br>I&#39;ve got an APC UPS that is currently powering my 24-port cisco switch and my server.&nbsp; My server is running FreeBSD but doesn&#39;t have a serial port which the UPS needs for emergency shutdown.<br><br>I&#39;m soon to be adding a Winblowz server box into the network for testing, that box will have a serial port and can therefore run shutdown scripts when it is told that the power has f00bed and running on battery.&nbsp; I need to work out a way of running the shutdown command on the fbsd box from windows automatically such as within a batch file.&nbsp; I&#39;m not entirely sure how i go about getting a windows box to shutdown a fbsd box remotely so does anyone have any ideas?
<br><br>All i&#39;ve come up with is setting up a user that when they logon runs &quot;shutdown -p NOW&quot; and kills the server safely...then have a windows script to call putty, login and then issue that.&nbsp; Again...i&#39;m not sure how to go about it.
<br><br><br>Cheers,<br>Joe<br>