Data Centre in a Rack

I recently took the plunge to install some of my more used networking components into a server rack. I'd been putting this off for a few years. Most of these components have been projects of mine which I've already blogged on in various places on this blog. The obvious places are the … Continue reading →

Quick walk through, of my UPS library

Part three of a three part series On setting up a UPS solution, to enable clean shutdown of vital network components. In this post, we'll be reviewing the library that performs the shutting down of our servers. When I started on the library PowerOffUPSGuests.dll, my thoughts were, if I'm … Continue reading →

Preparing APC Smart-UPS 1500 clients

Part two of a three part series on Setting up a UPS solution, to enable clean shutdown of vital network components. This post is about setting up the software that will be responsible for cleanly shutting down servers and workstations. We have to decide which machine/s is/are going to be used to … Continue reading →

Preparing APC Smart-UPS 1500 for Critical Servers

Part one of a three part series on Setting up a UPS solution, to enable clean shutdown of vital network components. This post is essentially about setting up a Smart-UPS and it's NMC (Network Management Card), as the project I embarked upon was a little large for a single post. Christchurch NZ … Continue reading →

Using PSCredentials

I've been working on a small project that shuts down machines attached by network and of course power feed to an APC Smart-UPS. The code that was shutting down the guests required authentication to be passed to the receiving services. I decided to give the following PowerShell cmdlets a … Continue reading →

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