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Oh well. Didn't know if someone managed to get it going or not. The solutions I found digging through the web eventually came back to needing an APC NIC of some kind.
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Oh well. Didn't know if someone managed to get it going or not. The solutions I found digging through the web eventually came back to needing an APC NIC of some kind.

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I just set up an ESXi 4.1 host, and have an APC Back-UPS XS 1500. This UPS only has an RJ45 to USB console cable to monitor it's status. Unfortunately it does not have a NIC to support LAN based shutdown commands. Is there any way to get the ESXi host to see this device and perform a graceful shutdown if needed? I have plugged in the UPS and rebooted the host, but have no idea where to go from there.<br />
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Brand new to ESX. All I could find was USB passthrough (which doesn't list the device, by the way).
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I just set up an ESXi 4.1 host, and have an APC Back-UPS XS 1500. This UPS only has an RJ45 to USB console cable to monitor it's status. Unfortunately it does not have a NIC to support LAN based shutdown commands. Is there any way to get the ESXi host to see this device and perform a graceful shutdown if needed? I have plugged in the UPS and rebooted the host, but have no idea where to go from there.

Brand new to ESX. All I could find was USB passthrough (which doesn't list the device, by the way).

USB UPS and ESXi

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