APC and 10.5

What and how are you guys managing your battery backup with xserves running 10.5, specifically APC UPS's. Id like to hear the 1:1 ration, 1 server and 1 APC but specifically the 1: many or the 1 Apc and many server or the Many:Many with multiple APC's and multiple servers, or even multiple servers on 1 UPS. How are you controlling shutdowns and so forth. I do not see a lot of discussions about this but it is important, imo.
Thanks

Ok and what about a many:many scenario?
When you have a need to provide a UPS system to many servers, say in a datacenter, the use of individual UPS units becomes, very quickly, much too costly from a per unit cost and power efficiency standpoint. In a scenario like that, you need to consider using a larger more centralized rack-based or room based UPS system. In a smaller deployment, using one UPS to power many servers simply reduces the time that the servers will remain powered from the UPS when they are running on battery power.
Additionally, only one server can be attached to a UPS via the serial or USB port at a time. Therefore, the other units will not be able to monitor the UPS's ability to provide power when the mains are down. When the server connected to the UPS senses the impending shutdown of the UPS, it shuts down properly while the other attached servers suck the batteries dry and just have their power cut when the UPS shuts down, just like if you pulled the plug on them. A larger more centralized unit should/would have the ability to signal any unit attached to it -usually via the network- to shutdown gracefully when the capacity of the UPS is below a certain point.
That then brings up another point, in that if you are considering a centralized UPS for a server room, you need to consider powering your network gear as well as the servers that are attached to them. Having a UPS that communicates with attached hardware via the network won't be able to protect the systems if it can't communicate with them and inform the admins that there is a problem if the network is down. So you should consider providing UPS systems for your core network switches and routers to keep them up and available in a power outage along with your servers as it's pointless to have notifications enabled if there's no way to send those notifications during an event.

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Hi,
You did exactly whats required to acheive your requirement.
There is no more further implications by removing the tick for a while and reverting after go live.
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A UPS model that works with Mac Native software to do a graceful shutdown and automatic restart during a power failure.

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Hello SAP Guru,
Good day!
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Dear Experts
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11        Non Leading         3                         DE
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