Solaris 9 Automated Remote Shutdown

We have mixed server platforms at our company and not as many ups units as servers. We need to have a process of automatically notifying non-ups connected servers that they must shut down, once ups power is running low. We have found freeware for accomplishing remote shut-down for windows boxes but have seen nothing for solaris that can either be run from a windows box or a solaris box. Any suggestions?

Well... A lot of the new Sun servers have what is called "Lights Out Management" or a "Remote System Controller" (or was it "Console"? I always get that mixed up!)... These will allow you to powerdown the system remotely.
There is a little "but" to this though: you'll have to find a way to make your system's console port accesible through the network. Usually this is done through what is called a "terminal server" or "terminal concentrator". The firm Cyclades is a well known company who makes systems like these (although there are many many other companies as well).
By connecting your Sun's console port to the terminal server (which itself is connected to the network) you will be able to log in directly to your Sun from your Windows workstation. Most of these systems even let you use SSH for extra safety!
From the console you can hop through to the LOM or RSC prompt and tell the system to "power-off", which literally turns it off. Off course, this foregoes any form of proper shutdown, so you'll lose data and so on. Which leads me to this question: why do you not simply log in to the Sun system through the network and run a "shutdown" or "init" command?
Regards,
Thomas

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Originally I was getting "Access Denied" but after searching the internet I disabled file sharing on the remote PC and I now get the following error message:
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I know this is a late response, but when I had the same problem, I discovered that the problem was the firewall setting related to File and Printer Sharing (SMB-IN). That rule was disabled for the Public profile; I'm not sure what triggers that profile's
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Obviously, if any firewalls change on their own, that would appear to be a large disconcerting bug.
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Dear All,
I tried to do the script to remote shutdown my server below:
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i use a mac mini as a media server and i use ssh from the terminal to turn it off remotely,
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Solaris 9 remote login (ssh) drops connection

Hello All,
I wonder if you can help me...
Let me give you some set-up details before I ask you the question.
I have Ultra-60 at home with Solaris 9 and recommended patch cluster installed. The machine is connected to a Linksys WAG54G ADSL router/modem through RJ45 ethernet cable. The router also has windows XP machine connected through RJ45 ethernet cable. I also have another windows XP machine that connects to the router over wireless connection.
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I have created a domain name through dyndns.org.
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I have a UK ADSL servise provider called Pipex.
Now lets get to the problem:
The whole purpose of the above set-up is that I want to access sun machine from work. The whole set-up works perfectly well - for a little while and then something strange happens. At work, when I connect to the sun machine, everything works fine and when I leave the session idle for 15-20 minutes (could be less time), the connection drops and then I can not connect to the machine for good couple of hours. When I say connection drops, I do not mean that system displays a logout message or something - There is no response from the server - pressing of return key does not do anything and eventually I get a message on windows pop up that connection is disconnected. If I try to retry, the client tries for a while and then says that connection timed out. Same thing happens if I use the IP address � I use the right IP address as someone at home checks the router to confirms the correct IP address. This eliminates problem with domain name.
I have tried everything and can not work out what is causing this problem - the machine has all the 9_recommended patches. To narrow the problem down, I set up apache server on the sun machine. Today, when the connection dropped, I tried to connecting to the apache server and it failed - 'page can not be displayed' message on the internet explorer. However, after couple of minutes, I managed to get to the website but still can not get login prompt through ssh client.
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It is not the link at my office as my friend, in a different company gets the same problem on my machine � connects to it and after some in-activity, the connection drops and then he can not login for a long time.
It can not be the ADSL link as people at home can use the internet without any problem and they can access the sun machine locally.
It can not be the windows machines connected to the router as problem is there when windows machines are switched off � don�t know if windows would cause this, but just wanted to eliminate anything that I could think of.
One strange think that I did see yesterday was that, when I managed to login the last command showed that I was logged in throughout the time � the time when I could not logged in . The error message in the /var/adm/messages stated something like socket error and connection reset by peer or something � can not give you exact message right now as I can not login to the machine. The time on the message was couple of couple of minutes before I managed to login again and that time was the same as the time showed in last command is my logout time.
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- I enable remote router access and I can access that as well...
- I enabled telnet and I can not access the sun with telnet either.
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