I have a several Sun Enterprise 250 with Solaris 2.x installed and APC UPS 1400 power supplies that I would like to setup to shutdown gracefully during a power outage. Initially I installed APC PowerChute business edition from the APC website. I then realised that the 9Pin D to 9 Pin D PC type serial cable that I had would not connect to the Sun Enteprise 250 servers 25 Pin D serial port (A or B). I contacted APC support and they seemed to suggest that I needed another cable from them along with a splitter for the Serial ports on the Sun box? When I enquired what this was called or the part number I was told I could get it from Sun but they could tell me no more. They also mentioned I needed APC Powerchute 4.5 and not what I had installed. I have the following questions:
1. What is this cable to connect the Sun box to the APC UPS's Is this just the normal 9 pin 9 pin PC to UPS type cable?
2. What is this "Sun splitter" the guy mentioned?
Is this just a convertor that converts one of the 25 pin serial ports to two 9 pin serial ports?
3. Does anyone have a similar setup that works? i.e. shuts the servers down gracefully on power failure? Software version e.t.c would be useful
any hints would be appreciated
Thanks
1. What is this cable to connect the Sun box to the APC UPS's Is this just the normal 9 pin 9 pin PC to UPS type cable?
2. What is this "Sun splitter" the guy mentioned?
Is this just a convertor that converts one of the 25 pin serial ports to two 9 pin serial ports?
3. Does anyone have a similar setup that works? i.e. shuts the servers down gracefully on power failure? Software version e.t.c would be useful
any hints would be appreciated
Thanks