We've replaced our old file server with a new one running Windows Server 2008. The UPS we used for the old server is a GE NetPro 1500VA unit. It came with JUMP DataShield monitoring software, which seems to not have been updated since 2005. The most recent update I can find (2.2.0) does not support Windows 2008.
Does anyone know of alternative monitoring software that supports Windows 2008 and is compatible with the GE UPS? Although long power outages are rare here I'd still feel safer if I knew the server would shut down properly when the UPS battery runs low.
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Touch choice #1: You could run a GE supported version of Windows in a small VM, and have it signal the host.
Touch choice #2: If the GE NetPro provides serial signaling in addition to network, it probably wouldn't be too hard to adapt a cable and run the Windows 2008 release of APCUPSD, an open source project.
GE must be slowly backing out of this market, since its web page still sells and advertises both the H/W and S/W but does not support WS2008.